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.
| ISBN: | 9780230109841 |
| Publication date: | 27th October 2011 |
| Author: | Claire Barbetti |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets European history: medieval period, middle ages Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary theory |