Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry

✍ Scribed by Barbara K. Fischer

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 243
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction The Museum as Muse
Chapter One Charisma and Critique: Interrogating Aesthetic Liminality in Museum-Sponsored Anthologies
Chapter Two "Returned Again to the Exhibition": John Ashbery, Avant-Gardism, and Ekphrastic Risk
Chapter Three Daring to Wink: The Museum Comedies of Kenneth Koch and Richard Howard
Chapter Four "Someone (A Woman) Watching": Site-Specific Ekphrasis by Three Feminist Innovators
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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