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“GLORY TO ARTISTIC SKILL”: EKPHRASIS OF FINE ARTS IN P. ZAHREBELNYI`S NOVEL “WONDER” [PDF]
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2023 In the retrospective panorama of comparative studies experience, attention to ekphrasis seems to be more and more intense. The multifaceted phenomenon of ekphrasis does not lose its relevance over time.
Nataliia L. Bilyk.
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Études françaises, 2015 Ekphrasis refers to the literary and rhetorical trope of summoning up—through words—an impression of a visual stimulus, object, or scene. As critical trope, the word ekphrasis (ἔκφρασις) is attested from the first century ce onwards: it is discussed in the Imperial Greek Progymnasmata, where it is defined as a “descriptive speech which brings the ...
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023 In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 866-895, November 2023., 2023 Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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Literature Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10-12, October-December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines David Lodge's novel Deaf Sentence (2008), which focuses on the life of Desmond, a retired professor of linguistics. I argue that this text offers a standpoint through which readers can visualise the global phenomenon of population ageing and address the question of global responsibility. I look at Deaf Sentence within the
Stefano Rossoni
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‘Not as a Poet, but a Pioner’: Fancy and the Colonial Gaze in William Davenant's Madagascar (1638)
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 319-344, June 2023., 2023 Abstract In the late 1630s, the court poet William Davenant applied his literary energies to Madagascar, an island off the eastern coast of Africa: ‘Thus in a dreame, I did adventure out…/Betweene the Southern Tropick and the Line’. While previous scholarship has highlighted the poem's ambiguous attitude towards empire, focusing on the rising interest ...
Lauren Working
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American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2022 This article examines descriptions of persons, objects or scenes in three novels, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Alice Thompson’s The Book Collector, which either straightforwardly or obliquely evoke various
Ciobanu Estella
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Photography as Cinematic Ekphrasis: Intermedial Study in Garin Nugroho’s Opera Jawa
Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education, 2023 The Opera Jawa (2006), directed by Garin Nugroho is an Indonesian film with unique hybridity of art media (music, dance, visual art installation, acting, photography).
Sony Wibisono
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023 Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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Cornelius Cardew's Camouflage and Bun No. 2
Music Analysis, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 112-151, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Cornelius Cardew's Bun No. 2 (1964) provides a unique opportunity to reconcile the composer's indeterminate graphic score Treatise (1963–7) with a more determinately scored orchestral work which uses orthodox staff notation. It represents an amalgamation of Cardew's approach to two notational systems that, owing to their concurrence of use in ...
THOMAS METCALF
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