Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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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

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ekphrastic
ekphrasis



Wallace's use of ekphrasis in the context of representing film

—p.xii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
unknown
7 years ago


those are gorgeous lines of ekphrastic verse

—p.33 by Ben Lerner
notable
2 years, 9 months ago


I was trying to think of a poetic term for what you do with music, because poetry that’s inspired by paintings is called ekphrastic.

—p.154 The Art of Poetry No. 107 (140) missing author
strange
3 years, 2 months ago


Visual art and artists are everywhere in your work. Where did the interest in ekphrasis begin?

—p.91 The Art of Poetry No. 110 (72) missing author
notable
2 years, 8 months ago