Ekphrastic Encounters

David Kennedy was Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull -- .

Introduction: from paragone to encounter – David Kennedy and Richard Meek
Part I: Early modern encounters
1 ‘Lamentable objects’: ekphrasis and historical materiality in Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece – Rachel Eisendrath
2 ‘Fabulously counterfeit’: ekphrastic encounters in Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy – Richard Meek
3 ‘Art indeed is long, but life is short’: ekphrasis and mortality in Andrew Marvell – Keith McDonald
4 ‘The Painter has made a finer Story than the Poet’: Jonathan Richardson’s ekphrastic ‘Dissertation’ on Poussin’s Tancred and Erminia – Jason Lawrence
Part II: Nineteenth-century encounters
5 Blind spots of narration? Ekphrasis and Laocoön digressions in the novel – Catriona MacLeod
6 The face of Beatrice Cenci – Stephen Cheeke
7 Mirroring naturalism in word and image: a critical exchange between Emile Zola and Edouard Manet – Lauren S. Weingarden
8 Close encounters of the third kind: Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’ – Jane Thomas
Part III: Modern and postmodern encounters
9 An artist of the bizarre: Stanley Spencer’s ‘ordinary’ ekphrases – Liliane Louvel
10 The graphics of ekphrastic writing: Raymond Pettibon’s drawing-writing – Tilo Reifenstein
11 Ekphrasis/exscription: Jean-Luc Nancy on thinking and touching art – Johanna Malt
12 On gazers’ encounters with visual art: ekphrasis, readers, ‘iconotexts’ – Claus Clüver
Afterword – James A. W. Heffernan
Index -- .