Ekphrastic medieval visions : a new discussion in interarts theory / Claire Barbetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbetti, Claire.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ekphrasis.

Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.

Poetry, Medieval.

Poetics--History--To 1500.

Poetics.

History.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"Ekphrastic Medieval Visions explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions, ending with considerations of contemporary poetry to illustrate how medieval ekphrasis can illuminate current studies in poetics. Barbetti 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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I

1 The Ekphrastic Medieval Dream Vision 17

2 Poethics and the Ekphrastic Body in Pearl 39

3 Ekphrasis and the Polytemporal in Piers Plowman 61

Part II

4 The Ekphrastic Mystical Vision Text and the Rhetoric of Memoria 83

5 Secret Designs/Public Shapes: The Space of Memory in the Ekphrasis of Hildegard's Scivias 105

6 Inhuman Ekphrasis: The 40(plus)-Year Ekphrasis of Julian of Norwich 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230109841

0230109845

OCLC:

711049348