“Language Cannot Do Everything”: Ekphrasis as a Strategy of Re-vision in Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Marta SOARES

Makale detayları

“Language Cannot Do Everything”: Ekphrasis as a Strategy of Re-vision in Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Yazarlar:

Marta SOARES

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2010 Issue 31, pp.23-36

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2010

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734576

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

Images are, and always have been, a paradoxical source of fascination  and anxiety. Throughout cultural history, the sensory effects and illusory  presence of the visual have frequently led to idolatry, iconoclasm, and  iconophobia. Depreciated by Plato as mere imitations of the real, images  own nonetheless an immense irrational force, expressing what Régis Debray  describes as the human need to overcome the fear of nothingness, “le néant”   15-43 . Ultimately powerful and attractive, images create the illusion  that the visible is accessible and present; as Umberto Eco emphasizes, the  “image possesses an irresistible force,” producing “an effect of reality, even  when it is false”  Wagner 30 .2   Although visual language has been with us  since the onset of humanity, truth is that we are presently saturated with  images, since ours is the era of the “image-world,” as Susan Sontag puts it,  where pictures have an almost unlimited authority, threatening to replace  reality and substitute firsthand experience  153-80 .

Makale detayları

“Language Cannot Do Everything”: Ekphrasis as a Strategy of Re-vision in Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Yazarlar: Marta SOARES

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2010 Issue 31, pp.23-36

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2010

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000734576

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Marta SOARES

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2010 Issue 31, pp.23-36

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2010

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734576

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606