David (editor) - Ekphrastic encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts

Ekphrastic encounters

Ekphrastic encounters

New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts

Edited by David Kennedy and Richard Meek

Manchester University Press

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Stephen Cheeke is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, UK. His publications include Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (Manchester University Press, 2008) and Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Claus Clver is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, USA. He has also taught at New York University and University of California, Berkeley, and in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, and Brazil. Among his publications are a book on modern epic theatre and over forty essays on the history, theory, and practice of intermedial studies. He has also co-edited several essay collections on topics in word-and-image studies, including The Pictured Word (1998), Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 10002000 (2004), Orientations: Space/Time/Image/Word (2005), and The Imaginary: Word and Image/LImaginaire: texte et image (2015; all published by Rodopi, now Brill).

Rachel Eisendrath is Assistant Professor of English and chair of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Programme at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA. She is the author of Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis (University of Chicago Press, 2018).

James A. W. Heffernan is Professor of English Emeritus at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. He has published widely on the relations between literature and visual art. His books include The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner (University Press of New England, 1985), Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (University of Chicago Press, 1993), Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions (Baylor University Press, 2006), and Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature (Yale University Press, 2014). He is also founding editor of Review 19 (www.nbol-19.org).

David Kennedy was Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull, UK. He was co-editor of the Bloodaxe anthology The New Poetry (1993), and the author of New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 19801994 (Seren, 1996). He published three collections of poetry with Salt, including The Devils Bookshop (2007), and a book-length sequence about Czanne, entitled The Apple and the Mountain, with Shearsman Books (2015). His critical books included Elegy (Routledge, 2007), Douglas Dunn (Northcote House, 2008), The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere (Ashgate, 2012), and the co-authored study Womens Experimental Poetry in Britain 19702010: Body, Time and Locale (Liverpool University Press, 2013).

Jason Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull, UK. His first monograph, Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?: Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England (Manchester University Press, 2006), explored the relationship between methods of learning Italian in Renaissance England and techniques of literary imitation in response to Italian materials. His latest monograph, Tassos Art and Afterlives: The Gerusalemme liberata in England (Manchester University Press, 2017), focuses on the reception in England of the life and works of the great sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, spanning literature, opera, and the visual arts from the late sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries.

Liliane Louvel is Professor Emerita of British Literature at the University of Poitiers, France. She has published numerous articles and books on the relationship between word and image, including Loeil du texte: Texte et image dans la littrature de langue anglaise (Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1998), Oscar Wilde,The Picture of Dorian Gray: Le double miroir de lart (Ellipses, 2000), Texte/image, images lire et textes voir (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2002), Le tiers pictural: Pour une critique intermdiale (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010), and Poetics of the Iconotext, edited by Karen Jacobs and translated by Laurence Petit (Ashgate, 2011). Angeliki Tsetis translation of Le tiers pictural has been published by Routledge as The Pictorial Third (2018). She has also edited several collections of essays on this subject. She is currently President of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), and President of the International Association for Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AIERTI).

Catriona MacLeod is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller (Wayne State University Press, 1998), and Fugitive Objects: Literature and Sculpture in the German Nineteenth Century (Northwestern University Press, 2014), as well as co-editor of two volumes on inter-arts studies, and, most recently, Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures (Northwestern University Press, 2016). Her current book project, Romantic Scraps, explores how Romantic authors and visual artists manipulate paper, generating paper cuts, collages, and inkblot poems to create striking new hybrid forms. Since 2011 she has been senior editor of Word & Image.

Keith McDonald joined the University of London, UK in 2015 following spells teaching Renaissance literature at the University of Leicester and the University of Geneva. He completed his doctoral thesis on Andrew Marvell in 2013 and is working towards the publication of his first monograph. In addition to his website, writingprivacy.com, his work has appeared in English Studies, Marvell Studies, and in Englands Fortress: New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax (Ashgate, 2014).

Johanna Malt is Reader in French Literature and Visual Culture at Kings College London, UK. She is the author of Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics