"Ekphrastic Criticism: Comparing Music and the Visual Arts to Poetry and Prose," 121st PAMLA conference, Palm Springs, CA, Nov 7-10, 2024.

This panel invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences? Papers that focus on the relationship of music to literature, the visual arts to literature, or on the interrelations of all three art forms are invited.

Please submit proposals to:  https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP.

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