The art of vision : ekphrasis in medieval literature and culture / edited by Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse.

Contributor Johnston, Andrew James, editor.

ImprintColumbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]

Imprint2015

Descriptionvii, 307 pages ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.

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