Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures: Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry

From: Canadian Slavonic Papers | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Maria Rubins. Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures: Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry. New York: Palgrave, 2000. ix, 302 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00, cloth.

Maria Rubins offers a comprehensive account of two separate traditions of ecphrastic writing: one culminating in the French Parnassian movement of the 1860s and 1870s and the other in Russian Acmeism, starting from 1911. She settles on a simple and flexible definition of ecphrasis as a "type of text," regardless of genre, which describes a work of visual art. The introductory chapter, perhaps the best in ...

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