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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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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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Powrót do ekfrazy. Próba systematyzacji oraz propozycja typologii
Słodczyk takes a comparative approach to re-examine our understanding of ekphrasis and to propose an operational typology. First she draws on influential definitions of ekphrasis by scholars such as Spitzer, Hollander, Krieger, Heffernan, Mitchell ...
Rozalia Słodczyk
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Features of Ekphrasis in Victor Slavkin’s Play «The Picture»
Taking into account the achievements of modern Intermedia practices, the article analyzes Victor Slavkin’s one-act play «The Picture» (1982) in the context of the interaction of literature and painting.
Dmitry V. Goryunov +1 more
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The role of verbal painting in Leonid Leonov’s novel “Russian Forest”
L.M. Leonov dreamed of becoming an artist and the painter’s talent was embodied in his prose. His landscapes, portraits, portraits against the background of a forest in the tradition of, for example, M.V.
Lina Shi, Irina G. Mineralova
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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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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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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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Review of Ekphrasis, Memory, and Narrative After Proust: Prose Pictures andRecollections (2023) by Leonid Bilmes.
Omid Bagherli
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