Ekphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice/

Main Author: Webb, Ruth, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2009
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0826/2008035799.html
Table of Contents:
  • The contexts of ekphrasis
  • Learning ekphrasis : the Progymnasmata
  • The subjects of ekphrasis
  • Enargeia : making absent things present
  • Phantasia : memory, imagination, and the gallery of the mind
  • Ekphrasis and the art of persuasion
  • The poetics of ekphrasis : fiction, illusion, and meta-ekphrasis.