03375nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-52897-2 DE-He213 20251030112629.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240715s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031528972 978-3-031-52897-2 10.1007/978-3-031-52897-2 doi HM623 JFC bicssc SOC002010 bisacsh JBCC thema Cometa, Michele. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80588 The Literary Life of Pictures [electronic resource] : A Theory of Description / by Michele Cometa. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. VI, 136 p. 9 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda UNIPA Springer Series, 2366-7524 Ancient is Modern -- Scopic Regimes -- Modes of Description.-Text/Image -- Pictures -- Gazes -- Dispositives -- Denotation -- Dynamisation -- Integration -- Coda. Toward a Narratology of Description. This book offers a theory of ekphrasis—the literary description of an artwork—from the perspective of Visual Culture studies. A theory of ekphrasis must take into account not only the rhetorical strategies articulated in the description of artworks, but also the complex interplay that holds together the pictures that are described, the gazes that rest on them, and the dispositives that mediate them. It is therefore a matter of linking the study of the verbal rhetoric with the dynamics that are established between the author, the reader, and the visual artworks, real or fictive, as well as the performative aspects of description and the mediascapes that, from time to time, condition the gaze and the visual experience of the authors and the readers. This book proposes thus to consider both the intradiegetic aspects of description and the extradiegetic ones that condition its verbal texture. Following the rhetorics of ekphrasis throughout the Western tradition, from its origins in Philostratus, its reappraisal by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, to the twentieth-century avant-garde, this book shows how ekphrastic techniques are historically determined by the relationship between pictures, gazes, and dispositives. Culture Study and teaching. 66082 Literature Philosophy. 66322 Aesthetics. 64000 Visual Culture. 66084 Literary Theory. 61787 Aesthetics. 64000 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031528965 Printed edition: 9783031528989 Printed edition: 9783031528996 UNIPA Springer Series, 2366-7524 74410 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52897-2 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 61606 61606