Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice (Hardcover)

Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Contexts of Ekphrasis; Chapter 2 Learning Ekphrasis: The Progymnasmata; Chapter 3 The Subjects of Ekphrasis; Chapter 4 Enargeia: Making Absent Things Present; Chapter 5 Phantasia: Memory, Imagination and the Gallery of the Mind; Chapter 6 Ekphrasis and the Art of Persuasion; Chapter 7 The Poetics of Ekphrasis: Fiction, Illusion and Meta-ekphrasis; Conclusion;