It takes the average reader 3 hours and 20 minutes to read The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere by Dr David Kennedy
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Examining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than representational or counter-representational responses to paintings in museums and galleries. Even when the poem appears to be straightforwardly representational, it is often selectively so, producing a 'virtual' work that doesn't exist in actuality. Poets such as Kelvin Corcoran, Peter Hughes, and Gillian Clarke, Kennedy suggests, relish the ekphrastic...
The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere by Dr David Kennedy is 196 pages long, and a total of 50,176 words.
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