Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art. Heffernan explores this ambivalent poetry, which simultaneously celebrates the power of the silent image while circumscribing that power with the authority of the word. The canon of this work is known as the 'Museum of Words'.
representational friction (words and image), the turning of fixed forms into narrative (the tension between description and narration), gendered prosopopeia (the speaking male viewer and the silent female object---the language's anxiety, desire and control of the seen)
评分representational friction (words and image), the turning of fixed forms into narrative (the tension between description and narration), gendered prosopopeia (the speaking male viewer and the silent female object---the language's anxiety, desire and control of the seen)
评分representational friction (words and image), the turning of fixed forms into narrative (the tension between description and narration), gendered prosopopeia (the speaking male viewer and the silent female object---the language's anxiety, desire and control of the seen)
评分representational friction (words and image), the turning of fixed forms into narrative (the tension between description and narration), gendered prosopopeia (the speaking male viewer and the silent female object---the language's anxiety, desire and control of the seen)
评分representational friction (words and image), the turning of fixed forms into narrative (the tension between description and narration), gendered prosopopeia (the speaking male viewer and the silent female object---the language's anxiety, desire and control of the seen)