The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Homeric Description

Becker, Andrew S.

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“…On one hand, it imitates or even vies with its referent, the object, the shield: it is a medallion, a verbal equivalent of a visible object. On the other, it is a miniature replica of the entire poem, inside it (i.e., a mise en abyme); 29 hence, it is an enunciative and metadiscursive configuration, a "secondary screen" or a screen within another screen, in Christian Metz's terms. 30 On a still higher level, the shield is a device that serves to shape, frame, and organize the whole world: Oceanus surrounds it, as it frames the Earth itself and the maps of the oecumene.…”

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Intersections between Showing and Concealment in the History of the Concept of Screen

Avezzu¹

2016

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Intersections between Showing and Concealment in the History of the Concept of Screen

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2016

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“…For recent discussions of ekphrasis in these terms -as a distinctive kind of literaturesee Bergmann (1979), Hollander (1984, Heffernan (1991Heffernan ( , 1993, and Becker (1990Becker ( , 1992. 2.…”

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“…On the significance of external circumstances to our response to art and literature, see Felski (2020).20 Ryan (2001) 137; see alsoKuzmičová (2012) 43.21 The literature on the Shield of Achilles is vast. See the list in 157 n.1, who himself discusses its influence on the history of ecphrasis.22Lessing (1788), on which see nowLifschitz and Squire (2017).23 Cf Becker (1990). 145-48.…”

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“… 23 Cf. Becker (1990) 145–48. In addition to the levels mentioned above, Becker also adduces ‘the creator’, Hephaestus (140).…”

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In the Philostratus trap: an enactive and embodied perspective on theImaginesand theirenargeia

Grethlein

2023

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In his Imagines, Philostratus the Elder stages a scintillating play with several levels of representation and suggests that his verbal account can give the reader access to the pictures described and even the scenes depicted in the pictures. But does Philostratus actually immerse us in the paintings? This is a claim often made by scholars; however, an embodied and enactive analysis of the Imagines alerts us to various features that, instead of immersing us, highlight Philostratus’ rhetorical brilliance. The Imagines are not so much an ecphrasis in the sense of the Progymnasmata (that is, defined by enargeia) as a meditation on their ecphrastic practice. In general, the reference to another representation endows the ecphrasis of artwork with a reflexivity that tends to push the goal of making the hearer see something in the background.

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The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Homeric Description

Cited by 17 publications

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Intersections between Showing and Concealment in the History of the Concept of Screen

Intersections between Showing and Concealment in the History of the Concept of Screen

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In the Philostratus trap: an enactive and embodied perspective on theImaginesand theirenargeia

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