"Renaissance Ekphrasis and the Objects of History" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc46/ Author: Eisendrath, Rachel. Type: Dissertation Year: 2013 Publication Information: Chicago, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertation Abstracts International</p> Annotation: Devotes a chapter to examining the way Renaissance literary description in Rape of Lucrece responds to the increasing awareness of historical material in the period, illustrating how ekphrasis reveals the increasing tension between empirical knowledge of the historical world and artistic form represented in imaginative literature. Language: English Keywords: ekphrasis Tags: Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Rape of Lucrece WSB Update: Winter 2012 WSB Record Number: bbbc46