The poetics of sight / John Harvey.
- Harvey, John, 1942-
- Date:
- [2015]
- Books
About this work
Description
"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" -- Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Bern : Peter Lang AG, [2015]
Physical description
xii, 309 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of colour plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contributors
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineQ.FOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9783034307239
- 3034307233