Ekphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice /
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First Statement of Responsibility
Ruth Webb
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiii, 238 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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