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Ravishing Images: Ekphrasis in the Poetry & Prose of William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, & Philip Larkin

by Margaret Katy Aisenberg
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780820420318
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 206
  • Original Price: USD 76.35
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Item Weight: 409 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

This major study of Wordsworth, Auden and Larkin proposes that we read the history of contemporary poetry as the history of a war between words and images. This book argues that the desire for transparent clear poetry, in the 19th and 20th centuries, led poets to try to appropriate the powers of the image: the main trope they used was ekphrasis, a written description of a work of art. But the relationship between the arts was less a marriage than a rape. These poets feared the wordless power of the other they described. They narcissistically created these images with the rhetoric of possession, domination, violence, or entombment.

The Author: Katy Aisenberg received her B.A. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from the Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at Bentley College, Boston University, and Tufts University. She also holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University and is a published poet. Recently she completed an M.A. in Psychology from Boston University and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.

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