In his latest study on an intriguing subject that was for him both "exhilarating" and "exasperating," Murray Krieger defines ekphrasis in these terms: "the literary representation of visual art, real or imaginary." The kind of ekphrasis that deals with the "real" is of course the art of mimesis, what Krieger calls "enargeia I," that is, the "sensible" or sense-oriented perception and portrayal of the mimetic real. Ekphrasis which strives to capture the "imaginary," a writer's art of semiosis, Krieger discusses as "enargeia II," that is, the "intelligible" or mind-oriented ...

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