Museum of Words

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Homer, Virgil, Dante
A Genealogy of Ekphrasis
I. Homer: A Shield Sculpted in Words
II. Virgil: Re-Imagining the Shield
III. Visible Speech: The Envoicing of Sculpture in Dante's Purgatorio
2. Weaving Rape: Ekphrastic Metamorphoses of the Philomela Myth from Ovid to Shakespeare
I. Philomela's Graphic Tale
II. Verbalized Depictions of Rape in the Ancient Novel
III. Ekphrasis and Rape from Chaucer to Spenser
IV. The Painted Rape of Troy in Shakespeare's Lucrece
3. Romantic Ekphrasis
Iconophoria, Iconophilia, and the Ideology of Transcendence
I. Wordsworth's "Peele Castle"
II. "All breathing human passion far above": Keats and the Urn
III. Disintegrating Sublimity, Petrified Beauty: Shelley's "Ozymandias" and "Medusa"
IV. Ideality and Fixity: Byron on Sculpture
4. Modern and Postmodern Ekphrasis
Entering the Museum of Art
I. Gaze and Glance in Browning's "My Last Duchess"
II. The Museum in Auden's "Musée"
III. The Breughel Museum of William Carlos Williams
IV. The Museum-Goer in the Mirror: Ashbery's "Self-Portrait"
Notes
Works Cited