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Author:   Neil Murphy ,  W. Michelle Wang ,  Cheryl Julia Lee
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.560kg
ISBN:  

9781032226156

ISBN 10:   1032226153
Pages:   510
Publication Date:   11 March 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Aesthetics, Art, and Literature: Theoretical Concerns 1. The Concept of Literature 2. Cracking the Mirror: Autobiography and Self-Portraiture 3. Literature, Art, Craft 4. Beauty as Interaction 5. Figuration: The Cinematic in Literature 6. A New Science of Aesthetics: The Dual Brain Mechanics of Beauty, Wonder, and the Sublime 7. Experiential Aesthetics and Varieties of the Sublime 8. The Unattainable in the Literature of Love 9. ""Go and catch a falling star"": Embodiment, Cognition, and Imagery Part II: Ekphrastic Encounters 10. Ekphrastic Encounters and Contemporary Fiction 11. The Strange Case of Notional Ekphrasis 12. The Temporal Politics of Chaucerian Ekphrasis and the Beginnings of Trecento Art History 13. Ekphrasis and the Modern Lyric 14. Negotiating the In-Between: Culture as ""A Gift that Circulates and which No One Owns"" in Nick Joaquín’s ""A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino: An Elegy in Three Scenes"" 15. Multivalent Muses in Mori Ogai’s Fictions 16. Making Magic: Comics and the Ekphrastic Art of the Almost There 17. Ekphrasis: Art and Texts on Art in the Ottoman World 18. ""Wildly visual"": Bouvier, Synge, and Flaherty on the Aran Islands 19. A Matisse Story: A. S. Byatt’s ""A Lamia in the Cévennes"" and the Religion of Happiness 20. Art–Life–Planet: Ekphrasis Today Part III: Intermedial Crossings: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century 21. Vispo: A History of Visual Poetry 22. Entwining Ephemeral with the Eternal: Locus, Conca, and Margarita at Conques 23. Representing Truth in Illuminated Arthurian Manuscripts: Specular Encounters and the Meta Image 24. Dasharatha’s Oil Vat in the Mewar Ramayana 25. The Pictorial Parallel and the Early Histories of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction 26. Laurence Sterne and Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture 27. Delacroix Reads Ivanhoe: ""Painting Thoughts"" Part IV: Intermedial Crossings: From Modernism to the Present 28. Another Turn of the Screw: Illustration as Interpretation 29. Driving the Plot through Color 30. T. S. Eliot and the Gesamtkunstwerk or ""Total Work of Art"" 31. Dancing Feeling, or Kinesthetic Empathy in Contemporary Dance Fictions 32. Inscribed Sites: Verbal Art in Postmodern Built Environments 33. Detritus Art after WWII: Impoverishment, Collage, and the Inoperative Tradition 34. Behind the Painting, A Pantoum: Literature and Art and Southeast Asia 35. Bridging Worlds: Infographics, Maps, and Photographs in Graphic Novels 36. Conceptual and Performative Art in Tom McCarthy, Michel Houellebecq and Don DeLillo 37. Concealed Strokes: Fu-bi as Aesthetic Principle Index"

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Neil Murphy is Professor of English in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His publications include John Banville (2018). W. Michelle Wang is Associate Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the author of Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction (2020). Cheryl Julia Lee is Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her poetry collection, We Were Always Eating Expired Things (2014), was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize.

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