Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign

• Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign. Emblems by Joan Krieger. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
  Contents:
  

• Foreword: Of Shields:xiii-xvii.
  
  1. Picture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration and Exasperation--of Ekphrasis as a Subject: 1-28.
     
  2. Representation as Illusion: Dramatic Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic: 31-64.
     
  3. Representation as Enargeia I: Verbal Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic: 67-90.
     
  4. Representation as Enargeia II: Nature's Transcendence of the Natural Sign: 93-112.
     
  5. The Verbal Emblem I: The Renaissance: 115-142.
     
  6. Language as Aesthetic Material: 145-195.
     
  7. The Verbal Emblem II: From Romanticism to Modernism: 197-231.
     
  8. A Postmodern Reprospect: Semiotic Desire, Repression in the Name of Nature, and a Space for the Ekphrastic: 233-261.
     
  Appendix: Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoön Revisited ( 1967): 263-288.