Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis Lyrical Representations of Photographs from the 19th Century to the Present = Lyrical Representations of Photographs from the 19th Century to the Present

Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century. Unlike other critical studies of ekphrasis, Miller's study concentrates solely on the lyrical ekphrasis of photographs, setting out to define how the photographic image provides a unique form of poetic ekphrasis. Moving between the disciplines of semiotics, visual studies, psychology, classical rhetoric, philosophy and literary criticism, Miller outlines what he defines as the chronotope of the photograph. Employing M.M. Bakhtin's notion of the literary chronotope, Miller argues that the ekphrasis of photographs manifests itself in a series of chronotopic narratives. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to delineating one of these narratives. In this work, Miller engages in a literary history that follows the timeline of photography from its origins in the 19th century to its contemporary digital manifestations in the 21st. The study engages in close-readings of the works of such poets as Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin. In addition, the book does the work of a comparative study, and it goes beyond the limits of Anglophone literature to include the works of such poets and writers as Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal and Zbigniew Herbert. Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the nineteenth century. Unlike other critical studies of ekphrasis, Miller's study concentrates solely on the lyrical ekphrasis of photographs, setting out to define how the photographic image provides a unique form of poetic ekphrasis. Moving between the disciplines of semiotics, visual studies, psychology, classical rhetoric, philosophy and literary criticism, Miller outlines what he defines as the chronotope of the photograph. Employing M.M. Bakhtins notion of the literary, chronotope, Miller argues that the ekphrasis of photographs manifests itself in a series of chronotopic narratives. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to delineating one of these narratives. In this work, Miller engages in a literary history that follows the timeline of photography from its origins in the nineteenth century to its contemporary digital manifestations in the twenty-first. The study engages in close readings of the works of such poets as Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Thomas; Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin. In addition, the book does the work of a comparative study, and goes beyond the limits of Anglophone literature to include the works of such poets and writers as Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal and Zbigniew Herbert A Detailed Study Of The Ekphrasis Of Photography In Poetry Since The 19th Century. Unlike Other Critical Studies Of Ekphrasis, Miller's Study Concentrates Solely On The Lyrical Ekphrasis Of Photographs, Setting Out To Define How The Photographic Image Provides A Unique Form Of Poetic Ekphrasis. That Which Will Not Perish Into Art : The Chronotope Of The Photograph -- The Ekphrasis Of The Cicerone : The 19th Century -- The Snapshot Elegy -- The Suppressed Ekphrasis -- The Ekphrasis Of Iconic Photographys -- The Ekphrasis Calligram -- The Anti-ekphrasis : Larry Levis's Sensationalism -- The Speaking Photograph -- The Shadow Of The Former Self -- The Photoshopped Image : The Ekphrases Of Digital Photographs -- Coda : Sallie In Her Byzantine Mirror. Andrew D. Miller. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [318]-327) And Index. Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Copyright Disclaimer -- A Note on the Presence of Translations and Poems in their Original Languages -- Introduction -- 1 That Which will not Perish into Art: the Chronotope of the Photograph -- 2 The Ekphrasis of the Cicerone: the 19th Century -- 3 The Snapshot Elegy -- 4 The Suppressed Ekphrasis -- 5 The Ekphrasis of Iconic Photographs -- 6 The Ekphrastic Calligram -- 7 The Anti-Ekphrasis: Larry Levis's "Sensationalism"--8 The Speaking Photograph -- 9 The Shadow Of The Former Self 10 The Photoshopped Image: the Ekphrases of Digital Photographs -- Coda: Sallie In Her Byzantine Mirror -- Bibliography -- Index