This book traces the evolution of ekphrasis from Plato to Derrida by analysing modern poems by Sylvia Plath, WC Williams, Nemerov, Ashbery and paintings by de Chirico, Charles Demuth, Paul Klee, Frank Stella, etc.  in the light of the major contemporary theories of creativity.

ISBN 978-3-0343-1363-6

Orders at Peter Lang Academic Publishers, Bern, Switzerland.