“Take the Beuys off!” – Reconsidering the Current Concept of Ekphrasis in the Performative Poetry of Thomas Kling: A portrait poem by the German poet Thomas Kling (1957-2005) about the German artist Joseph Beuys is the starting point to reconsider the current ekphrasis discourse in the light of experienced visuality by combining the concept of ancient rhetoric with modern ideas of imagination, multimodality and performativity.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)157-188
JournalAletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura
Volume27
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Oct

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Specific Literatures

Free keywords

  • ekphrasis
  • visuality
  • performativity
  • semiotics
  • multimodality
  • mimesis
  • Thomas Kling

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