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The multifaceted interrelationships of the various media are now considered to be a particular productive area of comparative strategy. The generalised typology among the types of intermedia at the present stage is considered to be the most fruitful and
Natalia Bilyk
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Audio description for all? The benefits and concerns of extending access provision to sighted people
Abstract Audio description (AD) is an established part of museums' access programs for blind and partially blind (BPB) people. This paper explores the merits and caveats regarding “AD for all”, rolling out the provision for sighted people as well.
Ellen Adams
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Ecphrasis as a Transcultural Marker
The study draws the attention of philologists (literary scholars and linguists) and cultural scientists to the technique of ekphrastic description, which was actualized in literary works of the 20th - 21st centuries, and which, in the context of multi ...
Eleonora F. Shafranskaya +2 more
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Titian's Bacchus and His Two Loves
Abstract Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne represents not only Bacchus' attraction to Ariadne, as has long been recognized, but also his infatuation with a boy‐satyr, Ampelos, who struts at the centre of the composition. The little satyr's identity, recognized in the seventeenth century, but overlooked by modern scholars, is confirmed by newly revealed ...
Fern Luskin
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Shakespeare, the Ekphrastic Translator
In The Rape of Lucrece, the Shakespearean heroine admires a wall-painting illustrating a scene from the Trojan War. The two hundred lines of the poem in which Lucrece describes the ancient characters involved in the war represent a remarkable piece of ...
Brînzeu Pia
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Anna Letitia Barbauld's Insect Poetics
Abstract This article reads Anna Letitia Barbauld's affective encounter in ‘The Caterpillar’ (1825) in the light of her broader entomological writing for both adults and children. It investigates the recommendations for attention to the small and the particular in her didactic work alongside the narratives of insect subjectivity and insect ...
Rosalind Powell
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The Voices of Silent Film: Forms of Ekphrasis and Iconotext in Melania Mazzucco’s «Silenzio»
In Silenzio. Le sette vite di Diana Karenne by Melania Mazzucco, it becomes clear from the outset that photography, silent film and narrative mechanisms related to the visual, play a structuring role in the novel.
Nerida Woodhams Bertozzi
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Poetry, Media and the Pain of Others. On Some Ekphrases in Ghayath Almadhoun’s and Marie Silkeberg’s poems The article discusses ekphrases and the mediations of the pain of others in the poetry of Ghayath Almadhoun and Marie Silkeberg.
Hans Kristian S. Rustad
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Words and Pictures: Rāmāyaṇa Traditions and the Art of Ekphrasis
This article examines two ambitious enactments of the Rama story or Rāmāyaṇa, side by side: the 17th-century painted Mewar Rāmāyaṇa and Vālmīki’s epic poem (ca. 750–500 BCE).
Subhashini Kaligotla
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