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The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture: Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult

Editat de Andrew James Johnston, Margitta Rouse Autor Ethan Knapp
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 dec 2015
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 or sculpture. In this lively collection of essays, Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse offer a major contribution to the study of text–image relationships in medieval Europe. Resisting any rigid definition of ekphrasis, The Art of Vision is committed to reclaiming medieval ekphrasis, which has not only been criticized for its supposed aesthetic narcissism but has also frequently been depicted as belonging to an epoch when the distinctions between word and image were far less rigidly drawn. Examples studied range from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries and include texts written in Medieval Latin, Medieval French, Middle English, Middle Scots, Middle High German, and Early Modern English.
 
The essays in this volume highlight precisely the entanglements that ekphrasis suggests and/or rejects: not merely of word and image, but also of sign and thing, stasis and mobility, medieval and (early) modern, absence and presence, the rhetorical and the visual, thinking and feeling, knowledge and desire, and many more. The Art of Vision furthers our understanding of the complexities of medieval ekphrasis while also complicating later understandings of this device. As such, it offers a more diverse account of medieval ekphrasis than previous studies of medieval text–image relationships, which have normally focused on a single country, language, or even manuscript.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814252192
ISBN-10: 0814252192
Pagini: 318
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult


Recenzii

“This wide-ranging collection of essays offers a significant contribution to our understanding of the relationships between images and texts in the literatures of medieval Europe. The volume’s insightful investigations of early ekphrastic texts and theories are certain to enrich ongoing scholarly conversations about rhetoric, literary form, imagination, and visual cultures in the Middle Ages and beyond.” — Shannon Gayk, Indiana University, Bloomington

Notă biografică

Andrew James Johnston is Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Freie Universität Berlin, Ethan Knapp is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University, and Margitta Rouse is Associate Fellow of the Collaborative Research Centre Episteme at Freie Universität Berlin.

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION: THE DYNAMICS OF EKPHRASIS
Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse

PART I: EKPHRASIS AND THE OBJECT
  1. EKPHRASIS AND THE OBJECT
    Valerie Allen
  2. MULTILINGUAL LISTS AND CHAUCER’S “THE FORMER AGE”
    Sarah Stanbury
  3. SPEAKING IMAGES? ICONOGRAPHIC CRITICISM AND CHAUCERIAN EKPHRASIS
    John M. Bowers
PART II: THE DESIRE OF EKPHRASIS
  1. VISION AND DESIRE IN MARY MAGDALENE AND THE WINTER’S TALE
    Claudia Olk
  2. FEELING THINKING: PEARL’S EKPHRASTIC IMAGINATION
    Anke Bernau
      6.  FROM ENSLAVEMENT TO DISCERNMENT: LEARNING TO SEE IN GOTTFRIED’S TRISTAN
           Kathryn Starkey

PART III: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF EKPHRASIS
  1. EKPHRASIS AND RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY IN SPENSER’S LEGEND OF HOLINESS
    Darryl J. Gless
  2. FACING THE MIRROR: EKPHRASIS, VISION, AND KNOWLEDGE IN GAVIN DOUGLAS’S PALICE OF HONOUR
    Andrew James Johnston and Margitta Rouse
  3. EKPHRASIS AND STASIS IN CHRISTINE DE PIZAN’S LIVRE DE LA MUTACION DE FORTUNE
    Suzanne Conklin Akbari

    PART IV: THE BORDERS OF EKPHRASIS
  4. FACES IN THE CROWD: FACIALITY AND EKPHRASIS IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
    Ethan Knapp
  5. THE SOUL OF EKPHRASIS: CHAUCER’S “MERCHANT’S TALE” AND THE MARRIAGE OF THE SENSES
    Hans Jürgen Scheuer

    EKPHRASIS, TROPE OF THE REAL; OR, WHAT THE PEARL-DREAMER SAW
    Larry Scanlon

Descriere

Furthers our understanding of the complexities of medieval ekphrasis while also complicating later understandings of the device.