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The art of vision : ekphrasis in medieval literature and culture /

One of the most common ways of setting the arts in parallel, at least from the literary side, is through the popular rhetorical device of ekphrasis. The original meaning of this term is simply an extended and detailed, lively description, but it has been used most commonly in reference to painting o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnston, Andrew James (Editor ), Knapp, Ethan, 1966- (Editor ), Rouse, Margitta, 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Ekphrasis and the object / Valerie Allen
  • Multilingual lists and Chaucer's "The Former Age" / Sarah Stanbury
  • Speaking images? Iconographic criticism and Chaucerian emphasis / John M. Bowers
  • Vision and desire in Mary Magdalene and The Winter's Tale / Claudia Olk
  • Feeling thinking: Pearl's ekphrastic imagination / Anke Bernau
  • From enslavement to discernment: learning to see in Gottfried's Tristan / Kathryn Starkey
  • Ekphrasis and religious ideology in Spenser's Legend of Holiness / Darryl J. Gless
  • Facing the mirror: ekphrasis, vision, and knowledge in Gavin Douglas's Palice of Honour / Andrew James Johnston and Margitta Rouse
  • Ekphrasis and stasis in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
  • Faces in the crowd: faciality and ekphrasis in late medieval England / Ethan Knapp
  • The soul of ekphrasis: Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" and the marriage of the senses / Hans Jurgen Scheuer
  • Ekphrasis, trope of the real; or, what the pearl-dreamer saw / Larry Scanlon.