Getting the picture
Subtitle: the ekphrastic principle in twentieth-century Spanish poetry
By: Margaret H. Persin.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Spanish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Ekphrasis.
Description: This book takes a probing look at how Spanish poets of the twentieth century read objects of visual art, write poems that utilize the discursive strategy known as ekphrasis, and how, in turn, they are read by those texts. As a result of their reading practices, the artistic works "read" by the poets are inscribed in the poets' own texts, and in a variety of ways.

This analysis sheds light on the poets' own distinctive stance toward many primary issues, such as textuality, representation, language, power, ideology, literature, and art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.