EKPHRASIS
DIGRESSIO in which one enters into a disproportionately detailed description of a subject matter.
詳細描寫法 Elaborate digressive description inserted into a passage.
Hypernym
- DIGRESSIOSPEECH ACT of digressing from one's main topic or narrative line of discourse. 節外生枝法 Explicit or implicit digression.
- SPEECH
ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act
performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category
is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided.
CH]
- RHETORICAL
TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of
expressions.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of
expressions.
Hyponym
- CHARACTERISMUSEKPHRASIS in the form of a detailed description and characterisation of a
person.
- DIASYRMOS CHARACTERISMUS consisting in the detailed denigration of someone's character
as despicable and laughable.
- DIASYRMOS CHARACTERISMUS consisting in the detailed denigration of someone's character
as despicable and laughable.
- CONFESSIOEKPHRASIS which consists in the detailed description of one's past and
present faults.
- EKPHRASIS-CHOROGRAPHIA詳寫風景人世法 Detailed (ekphrastic!) description of a place and its
inhabitants.
- EKPHRASIS-CHRONOGRAPHIA詳寫時期法 Detailed (ekphrastic!) description of a time of day, or a time of the
year.
- EKPHRASIS-EFFICTIO專門仔細寫人物法 'Complete' personal description of the appearance of a person, top
to toe. A kind of DESCRIPTIO. See CHARACTERISMUS.
- EKPHRASIS-PERSON詳寫身性法 The detailed and elaborated description of a person. Traditionally known as CHARACTERISMUS.
- HYPOTYPOSISEKPHRASIS of a deliberately ove-lively, vivid and emblematic kind.
- CHARACTERISATIONEKPHRASIS presenting in some detail the characteristic features of a
personality including hi physical appearance, biography, and personality
traits.
REF: Lausberg 342, fine Greek definition in Lausberg 811, see also 1133 for
non-digressive descriptio.
Greek/Latin: Quint. 4.3.12f. Occasionally discussed in the theoretical literature.
Ancient Chinese: This would appear to have been characteristic of chuci, but the details of this stylistic device need to be studied. When does descriptio become an aim in its own right in ancient Chinese literature? When does description become an aim in itself in Chinese prose?
REF: J.A.W. Herrernan, Museum of Words. The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashberry, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993
Iliad book 18 on the shield, Theokrit 1.
NB: It would be important to look for a special kind of "ekphrasis", that making an artistic summary of another text. But that is another story. Does this have a technical term?
Greek/Latin: Quint. 4.3.12f. Occasionally discussed in the theoretical literature.
Ancient Chinese: This would appear to have been characteristic of chuci, but the details of this stylistic device need to be studied. When does descriptio become an aim in its own right in ancient Chinese literature? When does description become an aim in itself in Chinese prose?
REF: J.A.W. Herrernan, Museum of Words. The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashberry, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993
Iliad book 18 on the shield, Theokrit 1.
NB: It would be important to look for a special kind of "ekphrasis", that making an artistic summary of another text. But that is another story. Does this have a technical term?
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