Search for dissertations about: "ekphrasis"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word ekphrasis.

  2. 1. Scripta Imagine : Buildings, Transformations, and Rhetorical Ekphrasis in Statius’ Silvae

    Author : Samuel Douglas; Christer Henriksén; Carole Newlands; Bruce Gibson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Statius; Ekphrasis; Rhetoric; Latin; Latin; Latin;

    Abstract : Statius’ Silvae, his collected epideictic poems in five volumes, have long been recognised as a descriptive tour-de-force, with its extensive depictions of buildings, people, and art. Modern critical responses to these have been varied, identifying a wide variety of influences and stylistic tendencies in these works. READ MORE

  4. 2. Visual Poetic Memory : Ekphrasis and Image-Text in Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Wopko Jensma

    Author : Maria Ioana Zirra; Stefan Helgesson; Bo Ekelund; Stef Craps; Jahan Ramazani; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visual Memory; Ekphrasis; Image-text; 20th Century Anglophone Poetry; Seamus Heaney; Derek Walcott; Wopko Jensma; The Troubles in Northern Ireland; the Caribbean; Apartheid; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This dissertation traces ekphrastic and image-textual references to European, African and Caribbean visual memory in the work of the three Anglophone poets Seamus Heaney (Northern Ireland), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) and Wopko Jensma (South Africa). READ MORE

  5. 3. Erotic Pathos, Rhetorical Pleasure. Narrative Technique and Mimesis in Eumathios Makrembolites´ Hysmine and Hysminias

    Author : Ingela NIlsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Eumathios Makrembolites; Hysmine Hysminias; Achilles Tatius; Leukippe Kleitophon; ancient novel; Eros; ekphrasis; Byzantine novel; mimesis; imitation; literary subversion; Byzantine literature; Komnenian literature; intertextuality; transtextuality; spatiality; Byzantinology;

    Abstract : .... READ MORE

  6. 4. What Literature Can Make Us See : Poetry, Intermediality, Mental Imagery

    Author : Emma Tornborg; Lars Elleström; Heidrun Führer; Valerie Robillard; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Intermediality; mental imagery; poetry; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : In this thesis I investigate what kind of mental imagery ekphrastic and pictorial poetry can evoke, how time is represented in this kind of poetry, and how readers experience the temporality it represents. Ekphrasis (a verbal representation of a static, visual, iconic representation) and pictorialism (a phenomenon that occurs when the reality of the fictive world, either psychological or physical, in the text is represented as image) are intermedial concepts: in various ways and to various degrees, ekphrastic and pictorial texts refer to and represent static, visual, iconic media such as painting, photography and sculpture. READ MORE