The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis

In 'The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis', Becker explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own reception: how Homer's reaction to a visual image creates his audience's response to a literary description. Becker also enters into a fiercely raging literary debate about the modernist, self-conscious elements of Homeric narrative

Art · Literature · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory · 883/.01 · Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature · Ancient Rhetoric · Art and literature · Description (rhetoric) · Ekphrasis · Epic poetry · Greece · Greek · Greek Epic poetry · History · History and criticism · Homer · in literature · Literature and the war · Pa4037 .b39 1995 · Pr4037 .b39 1994 · Rhetoric, Ancient · Shields in literature · Technique · To 1500 · Trojan War