Ekphrasis: what it does
Ekphrasis, since it is defined as representative of not only tangible pieces of art but also any expressly visual scene, can also be used to describe that which we see in our imagination. William A Covino, in a discussion of the magical qualities of literacy, devotes a number of pages to phantasms -- those random, yet intensely visual images that our mind creates. These emanate from various situations: memories, dreams, fantasies, fleeting glimpses, imaginings. While many of these are not in fact actual (even memories can be distorted, and often they are), they nevertheless represent a form of "truth" and/or "reality" in that our eyes have "seen" them. A consideration of Aristotle is helpful here, in that he wrote extensively on both the visual and the truth in conjunction with rhetoric -- which he defined as "an ability in each case to see the available means of persuasion"
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