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The poetics of sight
- Title
- The poetics of sight / John Harvey.
- Author
- Harvey, John, 1942-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- xii, 309 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some cololr); 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida"--
- Series Statement
- Cultural interactions : studies in the relationship between the arts ; volume 25
- Uniform Title
- Cultural interactions ; v. 25.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-303) and index.
- Contents
- Introductory: sight, the mind's eye and art -- Shakespeare pictures -- A poetry of vision: William Blake -- Satire and sight -- Bleak house to lighthouse: the optics of the novel -- Metaphor and modernism -- Note A: the Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare -- Note B: the writer as art-critic.
- ISBN
- 9783034307239
- 3034307233
- 9783035307061 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014035502
- OCLC
- ocn891718685
- 891718685
- SCSB-9572264
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries