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Heffernan, James Anthony Walsh was born on April 22, 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Roy Joseph and Kathleen (Walsh) Heffernan.
( Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the ve...)
Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word. Over the ages its practitioners have created a museum of words about real and imaginary paintings and sculptures. In the first book ever to explore this museum, James Heffernan argues that ekphrasis stages a battle for mastery between the image and the word. Moving from the epics of Homer, Virgil, and Dante to contemporary American poetry, this book treats the history of struggle between rival systems of representation. Readable and well illustrated, this study of how poets have represented painting and sculpture is a major contribution to our understanding of the relation between the arts.
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Through four successful editions, Writing: A College Handbook’s positive approach has not only empowered students to write effectively, it has challenged students to consider why good writing matters. The Fifth Edition builds on this emphasis, exemplifying in clear, engaging prose the skills that students need to communicate in a wide variety of rhetorical contexts. A reliable and easy-to-use reference tool and an up-to-date rhetoric and research guide, Writing: A College Handbook invites students to discover the power of effective writing.
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(Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the work...)
Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the works of four artists and writers, and demonstrates that the verbal and visual sides of romanticism are parts of a coherent whole.
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In over 100 exercises the workbook reviews the essentials of sentence writing, punctuation, and mechanics covered in Parts 2 and 3 of the handbook.
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(Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to ...)
Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy, Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy. Using examples such as the pre-historic cave paintings of Lascaux, film versions of Frankenstein, the provocative photographs of Sally Mann, and the abstract canvases of Gerhard Richter, the volume illustrates how learning to decode the language of pictures resembles the process of learning to read. While words typically frame and regulate our experience of art, the study also explains how pictures can contest the authority of the words we use to interpret art.
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Heffernan, James Anthony Walsh was born on April 22, 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Roy Joseph and Kathleen (Walsh) Heffernan.
AB cum laude, Georgetown University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1964.
Instructor English University Virginia, 1963-1965. Assistant professor English Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1965-1970, associate professor, 1970-1976, professor, 1976—2004, chairman department English, 1978-1981, Frederick Sessions Beebe professor in art of writing, 1997—2004, professor emeritus, since 2004. Consultant Mount Holyoke, 1986, PMLA, 1986-1987, Johns Hopkins University, 1987, New York University, 1987, 89, University Press New England, 1987, University Press Chicago, 1988, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1988, 90, Rutgers University, 1988, University Maryland, 1988, Vanderbilt University, 1989, Barnard College, 1992.
Director summer seminar English romantic literature and visual arts National Endowment for Humanities/Dartmouth College, Hanover, 1987, 89. Speaker various seminars. Lecturer in field; founding editor New Books on Literature 19, since 2009.
( Through four successful editions, Writing: A College Ha...)
(Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the work...)
(Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the work...)
(Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to ...)
( In over 100 exercises the workbook reviews the essentia...)
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Trustee Vermont Academy, 1992-1901. Member Modern Language Association (evaluator essays, presenter, delegate various conventions), Association Literary Scholars and Critics (council 1996-1999), founding editor NBOL-19 (online book review), since 2009.
Married Nancy Coffey, June 27, 1964. Children: Virginia, Andrew.