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SUMMARY:The Fictitious Construction of Presence:
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DESCRIPTION:The phenomenon of literary description of the artwork\, kn
 own as ekphrasis\, generally has been ascribed to the Greeks\, where i
 t was part of the curriculum of rhetorical training\, a rhetorical tec
 hnique of persuasion. Rather than being a literary genre – something
  that modern art history\, literary theory\, and anthropology have tur
 ned it into\, and rather than mimesis\, it was a poetic device intende
 d to free the image of its three-dimensional habitat and transform it\
 , so that it could become a powerful tool to spark emotions in the aud
 ience. A close look at the literary production in Mesopotamia reveals 
 that such a rhetorical technique was already present in royal inscript
 ions including hymns celebrating the building of a temple as well as i
 n historical inscriptions.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
CONTACT:isaw@nyu.edu
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