”To emphasize the rhetorical nature of ekphrasis is also to draw attention to the vestigial orality of the phenomenon, the way in which the discussions of both ekphrasis and enargeia assume live interactions between speaker and audience, with language passing like an electrical charge between them.” (Ruth Webb, Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persusation in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice (Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2009), p. 129)
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Hi–great blog and I like this video. I’m giving a talk on ekphrasis and the sublime on tuesday here:
http://www.ect.humnet.ucla.edu/
I believe I’m going to livestream it and I’ll certainly record it and upload the recordings to my blog (click my name).