a rhetorical term originally taught to Greek students as a way of bringing the experience of an object to a listener or reader through highly detailed descriptive writing
some of my early poems were ekphrastic
some of my early poems were ekphrastic
(noun) something that covers or encloses / (noun) an enveloping layer (as a skin, membrane, or cuticle) of an organism or one of its parts
What Indiana portrays in place of this myth is a kind of pathological integument binding together nodes of “normalcy,” where the deficits and obsessions characteristic of the criminal appear in an acceptable guise
What Indiana portrays in place of this myth is a kind of pathological integument binding together nodes of “normalcy,” where the deficits and obsessions characteristic of the criminal appear in an acceptable guise