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The Poetics of Sight

The Poetics of Sight

by John Harvey
The Poetics of Sight
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The Poetics of Sight

The Poetics of Sight

by John Harvey

Overview

The Poetics of Sight analyses the role of sight in memory, dream and popular culture and demonstrates the structure of a complex sight within literary and visual metaphors. The book explores the topic across the twentieth century, in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes, in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783034307239
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 03/26/2015
Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts , #25
Pages: 309
Product dimensions: 5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

About The Author
John Harvey is a literary critic and novelist. He is a Doctor of Letters of Cambridge University and a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he has lectured in the English Faculty since 1970. In 2000 he was appointed University Reader in Literature and Visual Culture. He is the author of Victorian Novelists and their Illustrators, Men in Black and The Story of Black.

Table of Contents

Contents: Sight, the Mind’s Eye and Art – Shakespeare Pictures – The Unequal Art of William Blake – Satire and Sight – Bleak House to Lighthouse: The Optics of the Novel – Metaphor and Modernism – A Note on the Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare’s Women.
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