Ekphrasis: Bildbeschreibung als Repräsentationstheorie bei Spenser, Sidney, Lyly und Shakespeare = Ekphrasis: image description as representation theory in Spenser, Sidney, Lyly and Shakespeare
By Mario Klarer (NHC Fellow, 1995–96; 2000–01) This volume examines instances of ecphrasis (literary descriptions of pictures) in the works of English Renaissance authors against the background of Elizabethan theory formation on the problem of representation. References to (usually fictional) works of art in the works of Sidney, Spenser, Lyly and Shakespeare serve as a … Continued