The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis

By Andrew Becker

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847679977
• ISBN13: 9780847679973
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 1.1" x 6.4"