Constantine Manasses, Odysseus, and the Cyclops
Constantine Manasses, Odysseus, and the Cyclops

Summary/Abstract: The relation between word and image is an old and debated issue in both art history and literary studies. Many attempts have been made to define their kinship and/or interdependence – are they rivals, does the one serve the other, or do they simply go hand in hand? And could the study of ekphrasis provide us with an answer to these questions? Is perhaps vivid description the place where literature and art meet and mingle, a mise en abîme for considering aesthetic issues in a self-reflective manner? Is even art history itself but one long ekphrastic discourse, founded on the description of objects and thus inextricable from the works of art?

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