Journal article
EKPHRASTIC ENLARGEMENTS: THE DAGUERREOTYPE AND RICHARD HOWARD'S "HOMAGE TO NADAR"
Abstract
Nadar My subject is ekphrasis and nineteenth-century portrait daguerreotypy. One of the oldest verse forms in literature, ekphrasis can most generally be defined as any "verbal representation of graphic representation" (Heffernan 299); it is a poem which takes as its preliminary or ostensible subject a painting or work of sculpture and enlarges upon problems and interests that are only implicit there. Examples range from Homer's description of …
Authors
Donaldson J
Journal
Canadian Review of American Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 529–550
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication Date
December 1, 1991
DOI
10.3138/cras-022-03-15
ISSN
0007-7720