Ekphrasis in the "Knight's Tale."

Published: R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Kupper, and Jeanette Patterson, eds. Rethinking the New Medievalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 181-97.

Description: Explores how in KnT ekphrasis (here the "verbal depiction of fictional images rather than of real ones") serves "a specific politics of representation" in which "the verbal and the visual" and "the classical and the medieval" are locked in "ineluctable conflict." Comments on the temples in KnT (especially that of Mars), their relation to the theater, the descriptions of Emetreus and Lygurge, subjectivity, self-reflexivity, voyeurism, "poetic narcissism," the paradoxical aims of chivalry, and "Lollard iconophobia."

Contributor: Bloch, R. Howard, ed.
Calhoun, Alison, ed.
Cerquiglini-Toulet, Jacqueline, ed.
Kupper, Joachim, ed.
Patterson, Jeanette, ed.