S. Cheeke, Writing for Art. The aesthetics of ekphrasis

CHEEKE, Stephen, Writing for Art. The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2008, 224 p.

ISBN 9780719076503

RÉSUMÉ

Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks. 

Stephen Cheeke offers close readings of poems and prose from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alongside a generous amount of illustrations, covering a broad range of writing and theory about the relation of literary texts to the visual arts, and extending the subject of ekphrasis to include literary works on photography, as well as celebrated prose descriptions of artworks.

Writing for art is written to appeal to both the non-specialist and specialist reader alike.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ekphrasis
2. Beauty and Truth
3. The Moment
4. Bliss
5. Suffering
6. Illusion
7. Photography and Elegy
8. Prose Ekphrasis
Select Bibliography
Index

BIOGRAPHIE

Stephen Cheeke is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol