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In ''The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis'', Becker explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own reception: how Homer''s reaction to a visual image creates his audience''s response to a literary description. Becker also enters into a fiercely raging literary debate about the modernist, self-conscious elements of Homeric narrative.

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
      Publication Date: 3/21/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780847679980, 978-0847679980
      ISBN10: 0847679985

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      In ''The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis'', Becker explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own reception: how Homer''s reaction to a visual image creates his audience''s response to a literary description. Becker also enters into a fiercely raging literary debate about the modernist, self-conscious elements of Homeric narrative.

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