Ekphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice /

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Author / Creator:	Webb, Ruth, 1963-
Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Ekphrasis. Rhetoric, Ancient. Ekphrasis. Rhetoric, Ancient. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11193755

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ISBN:	9780754693307 0754693309 9780754661252 0754661253 1317145356 9781317145356 1282054333 9781282054332 9786612054334 6612054336
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places the practice of ekphrasis within its cultural context, emphasising the importance of the visual imagination in ancient responses to rhetoric, poetry and historiography. By linking the theoretical writings on ekphrasis with ancient theories of imagination and emotion and language, she brings out the persuasive and emotive function of vivid languag.
Other form:	Print version: Webb, Ruth, 1963- Ekphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice. Farnham, UK : Ashgate, ©2009

Table of Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Contexts of Ekphrasis; 2. Learning Ekphrasis: The Progymnasmata; 3. The Subjects of Ekphrasis; 4. Enargeia: Making Absent Things Present; 5. Phantasia: Memory, Imagination and the Gallery of the Mind; 6. Ekphrasis and the Art of Persuasion; 7. The Poetics of Ekphrasis: Fiction, Illusion and Meta-ekphrasis; Conclusion; Appendix A: Translations; Appendix B: Subjects for Ekphrasis; Bibliography; Index.

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