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The Poetics of Sight (Paperback, New edition)
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The Poetics of Sight (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts, 25
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"Ut pictura poesis", Horace said, but through the two millennia in
which "the sister arts" have been compared, little has been said
about the nature of sight itself. What we see in "our mind's eye"
as we read has not been explored, though by following the visual
prompts in texts, one can anatomize the process of visualization.
The Poetics of Sight analyses the role of sight in memory, dream
and popular culture and demonstrates the structure of a complex
sight within the metaphors of Shakespeare, Pope and Dickens; and
within the visual metaphors of Picasso, Magritte and Bacon. This
book explores the difference between the great and the failed works
of the supreme poet-painter, William Blake, and tracks the
migrations of the Satiric muse between verbal mockery and scabrous
images in Persius, Pope, Gillray and Gogol. It records the rise,
and partial decline, of the vividly "seen" novel in Dickens,
Flaubert, Tolstoy, Proust and Hardy. The key concept throughout
this book is visual metaphor, which in the twentieth century
acquired overarching importance: in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in
poetry from Eliot to Hughes, in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida.
The book closes with a far-reaching definition of visual metaphor
and with the great visual metaphor of the human body.
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