Ekphrastic Medieval Visions [electronic resource] : A New Discussion in Interarts Theory /
Barbetti, C.author.
Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; An Introduction to the Field of Ekphrasis, or Ekphrasis Is a Verb, Not a Noun; Part I; 1 The Ekphrastic Medieval Dream Vision; 2 Poethics and the Ekphrastic Body in Pearl; 3 Ekphrasis and the Polytemporal in Piers Plowman; Part II; 4 The Ekphrastic Mystical Vision Text and the Rhetoric of Memoria; 5 Secret Designs/Public Shapes: The Space of Memory in the Ekphrasis of Hildegard's Scivias; 6 Inhuman Ekphrasis: The 40(plus)- Year Ekphrasis of Julian of Norwich
Conclusion: The Gift of Medieval Ekphrasis: Contemporary Ekphrastic Poethics and the Question of ArtNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
Poetry.
Literature, Medieval.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Classical literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Poetry and Poetics.
Medieval Literature.
History of Medieval Europe.
Classical and Antique Literature.
Literary Theory.