Re-reading Lessing’s Laocoon: for and against the ‘ut pictura poesis’ Theory
This paper offers a critical re-examination of two texts considered as foundation-stones in the long history of ‘text and image’ and yet rarely ever questioned since their words became ‘mottoes’: Horace’s so-called Ars Poetica (19–14 BC) in which the phrase ‘ut pictura poesis’ first appeared, and G....
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2006-11-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/12280 |