{"product_id":"9783031528996","title":"UNIPA Springer Series: A Theory of Description","description":"\u003ch1\u003eUNIPA Springer Series: A Theory of Description\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eCometa, Michele\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a theory of ekphrasis—the literary description of an artwork—from the perspective of \u003cem\u003eVisual Culture\u003c\/em\u003e studies. A theory of ekphrasis must take into account not only the rhetorical strategies articulated in the description of artworks, but also the complex interplay that holds together the \u003cem\u003epictures\u003c\/em\u003e that are described, the \u003cem\u003egazes\u003c\/em\u003e that rest on them, and the \u003cem\u003edispositives\u003c\/em\u003e that mediate them. It is therefore a matter of linking the study of the verbal rhetoric with the dynamics that are established between the author, the reader, and the visual artworks, real or fictive, as well as the performative aspects of description and the mediascapes that, from time to time, condition the gaze and the visual experience of the authors and the readers. This book proposes thus to consider both the intradiegetic aspects of description and the extradiegetic ones that condition its verbal texture. Following the rhetorics of ekphrasis throughout the Western tradition, from its origins in Philostratus, its reappraisal by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, to the twentieth-century avant-garde, this book shows how ekphrastic techniques are historically determined by the relationship between pictures, gazes, and dispositives.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-07-16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031528996\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-52897-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 136\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44340659388556,"sku":"9783031528996","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031528996.jpg?v=1776698262","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031528996","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}