Introduction Virtual Worlds and Embodied Images 1. The Virtualities of Ekphrasis from Myron's Cow to Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts , Jás Elsner (University of Oxford, UK) 2. Ekphrasis and Creation, Edmund Thomas (Durham University, UK) 3. Embodied Ekphrasis: Viewing Lucretius through Derek Mahon, Peter Kelly (Princeton University, USA) 4. Animating the Inanimate in Ancient Ekphrasis, Ruth Webb (Université de Lille, France) Vivid Emotions and Fluid Identities 5. From Narcissus : A History, Padraig Regan (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. 'Look, Look, Wenches, / A Miserable Life of this Poor Picture': Ekphrasis, Enargeia , and Affect in Early Modern Literature, Richard Meek (University of Hull, UK) 7. Beyond the Stendhal Syndrome, Yiannis Doukas (Independent Scholar, Ireland) False Art and Poor Ethics 8.

Bad Art: Poetry's Images, John McAuliffe (University of Manchester, UK) 9. Ekphrasis as Forgery: Statius, Martial and Novius Vindex, Peter Heslin (Durham University, UK) 10. Moral Complicity in Modern and Contemporary Ekphrasis, Bridget Vincent (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark) 11. The Art of the Shortcut, Vona Groarke (University of Manchester, UK) Absence and Presence 12. Fleeting and Multiform: Ekphrasis in Trompe l'Oeil, American 1890 and Fujiko Nakaya's Cloud Sculptures, Eva Bourke (Independent Scholar, Ireland) 13. Seamus Heaney: Ekphrasis, Memory, Uncertainty, Adam Hanna (University College Cork, Ireland) 14. Ciaran Carson's Philostratean Gallery: Facing Death through Ekphrasis, Karel Thein (Charles University, Czech Republic) Notes Bibliography Index.