num_pages: 200
description: In The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis , Becker explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own how Homer's reaction to a visual image creates his audience's response to a literary description. Becker also enters into a fiercely raging literary debate about the modernist, self-conscious elements of Homeric narrative.
language: English
title: The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis
titlecomplete: The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis
publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers