'Falling indelibly into the past' : ekphrastic encounters in contemporary writing

This thesis explores the image-text dynamic in contemporary writing through critical analysis of the ekphrastic encounter in the work of three writers - John Banville, Don DeLillo and W.G. Sebald - and through my own creative meditations on found photographs. It examines the function of described an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blunden, Victoria Jane
Published: University of Sussex 2009
Subjects:
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496875