English 313: Creative Writing
David Wright, Instructor
Ekphrastic Excursions
Instructions for Chicago Art Institute Trip
Useful  terms for visual understanding at the On-Line Visual Literacy Project 

Examples of Ekphrasis

Art in Willa Cather's Fiction
Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring (first chapter)
Damian Rollinson's Anthology
Non-Fiction: Mark Doty's Still Life with Oysters and Lemon (see handout)
--a review
--another review
--an excerpt
--about Mark Doty
--links to the "still life" in the title (scroll down a bit)
--writing assignment based on a quote (NOT our assignment)
Edward Hirsch's Transforming Vision: Writers on Art
Discussion/Assignment in Ekphrastic Poetry (also NOT our assignment)
Some nice links on the topic (including links to online museums)

Poems about Art

Poems and Images


Theory about Ekphrasis
An course that examines the concept
Another extended definition
Calamity Jane Blogs about Conventions in Ekphrasis

Musical Ekphrasis
The Perils of Ekphrasis
A good bibliography on the topic (part of a course description)
Ekphrasis (a poetry journal)
Word and Image (a scholarly journal)
Ekphrasis on the Internet (an article about multimedia and plagiarism)


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