Ekphrastic Medieval Visions A New Discussion in Interarts Theory

by Barbetti, Claire

• ISBN13: 9780230109841
• ISBN10: 0230109845
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Ending with considerations of contemporary poetry, Claire Barbetti illustrates how medieval ekphrasis can illuminate current studies in poetics.

Author Biography

Claire Barbetti received her PhD in English at Duquesne University. She was the co-founder and co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Janus Head. A working poet, her poetry has been published in Cimarron Review, How2, and The Drunken Boat.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to the Field of Ekphrasis * Part I * The Ekphrastic Medieval Dream Vision * Poetics and the Ekphrastic Body in Pearl * Ekphrasis and the Polytemporal in Piers Plowman * Part II * The Ekphrastic Mystical Vision Text and the Rhetoric of Memoria * Secret Designs/Public Shapes: The Space of Memory in the Ekphrasis of Hildegard’s Scivias * Inhuman Ekphrasis: The Forty(plus)-Year Ekphrasis of Julian of Norwich * The Gift of Medieval Ekphrasis: Contemporary Ekphrastic Poetics and the Question of Art