Literal and Literary Ekphrasis: A Medieval Poetics.

Author / Editor
Kertz, Lydia Yaitsky.

Title
Literal and Literary Ekphrasis: A Medieval Poetics.

Published
Medievalia et Humanistica 45 (2020): 75-99.

Description
Clarifies "two distinct modes of ekphrasis, the literal and the literary," exploring how and where they are deployed in HF (storm at sea and wall paintings of Dido and Aeneas) and in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (castle description and Gawain's shield). Analysis of the two modes and their uses reveals "much about theorizations of visual language" as well as "emulation of classical models."

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations