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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Ekphrasis"”.
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(Un)Bewegte Kunst – Ekphrasis als intermediales Phänomen im Bedeutungssystem Film
Die vorliegende Arbeit erforscht den Einsatz von Ekphrasen in audiovisuellen Texten. Der ursprünglich aus der antiken Rhetoriklehre stammende Begriff bezeichnet die literarische Beschreibung von bildender Kunst und wird im Rahmen dieser Untersuchung auf den Film übertragen. Ziel der Analyse …
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L' ekphrasis dans La Montagne secrète de Gabrielle Roy
Cette thèse porte sur l'ekphrasis dans l'une des œuvres romanesques de Gabrielle Roy, La Montagne secrète (1961). Nous nous basons sur les théories de Philippe Hauron, Lilianne Louvel et Isabelle Daunais pour entreprendre notre étude. La recherche de Jean Morency ainsi que celle de Kirsty Bell …
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Dreams, hallucinations, moving statues, and Ekphrasis in Ludwig Tieck's visual writings
… play a key role. This study seeks to posit that Ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both analyzing a visual image and attempting to translate the visual into the verbal in order to gain a better and more complete understanding of it. G.E. Lessing believed that poetry and the …
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Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory
"Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory" argues that the dream-vision and mystical-vision texts of the high and late Middle Ages are ekphrastic works. With their inclusion within the purview of criticism and theories of ekphrasis, new formal qualities of the …
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A Poetic Poioumenon: Coterie and Ekphrasis in David Lehman's "The Breeders' Cup"
… Cup” uses cross-generational coterie and ekphrasis to create a poetic poioumenon. When read in terms of art criticism, Lehman’s “The Breeders’ Cup” models creative processes from the past and calls for a rehabilitative ethic in postmodern poetics. Lehman follows the ekphrastic form, which …
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Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
… engagement with the age-old subgenre of ekphrasis, in which a poem responds to a work of visual art. I explore how both poets explode the boundaries of poetic form and ekphrastic tradition to re-imagine ekphrasis not as an abstract rivalry between modes of representation, but rather as an …
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Gestural Ekphrasis: Toward a Phenomenology of the Moving Body in Joyce and Woolf
… gesture within the framework of gestural ekphrasis:<em> the rendering of gesture - comprising quotidian lived gestures as well as gestural art forms - in another artistic medium and/or the gestures enacted by the artist as part of an ekphrastic process</em>.</p>
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Postulating the Personal in Abstract Art through Poetry: The Development and Implementation of an Abstract Ekphrasis
Considering ekphrasis as poetry written in response to an existing work of art, my thesis, “Postulating the Personal in Abstract Art Through Poetry”, engages intimately with referent works such that my analysis and composition of poetry articulate an ‘abstract ekphrasis’. Both visual art and poetry …
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Writing the sheela-na-gig: semiotic complexity, ekphrasis, and poetic persona in the poetry collection Strange Country
… writing processes and articulates my poetics of ekphrasis as practised in the collection. Strange Country focuses on sheela-na-gigs, stone carvings of naked female figures that prominently depict the vulva, which are found on medieval churches, castles, wells, and town walls in Ireland, England, …
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Randall, or The Painted Grape and Beyond Ekphrasis: The Role and Function of Artworks in the Novels of Don DeLillo
… Painted Grape; and secondly, an essay, ‘Beyond Ekphrasis: The Role and Function of Artworks in the Novels of Don DeLillo’. Randall, or The Painted Grape is a novel about the Young British Artists. It takes the form of a fictitious biographical memoir of an artist, Randall, written by his friend …
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Pictures on the wall of my life : photographs to life writing to fiction, an ekphrastic journey
… driver for this work, and the following one on ‘ekphrasis’ makes literary connections between two main drafts, one in third person (see Appendix) and the other (latest) in first person, looking in detail at the way ‘ekphrasis’ or visual to verbal translation has developed in these two versions. …
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Boudica & field notes towards a dynamic film-poem form
… becomes the camera lens, exploiting cinema and ekphrasis by projecting meaning without making it explicit. The film is composed of images which have been suggested by the lyrics, the cinematic sequencing of these images has then dictated the order in which the lyrics appear in the collection. …
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Writing the Visual in "Baroni: un viaje" and Other Recent Work by Sergio Chejfec
… I reflect on the related critical discourses of ekphrasis and translation and on the task of translating <em>Baroni: un viaje</em>.</p> <p>Chejfec's engagement with the visual as both an essayist and novelist has received little critical attention to date. In the first part of my study, I …
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Peculiar Eye
… translation of the visual world, a journey of ekphrasis.
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Equinoctial: an investigation of ‘the holographic’ for developing a new collection of ekphrastic poetry
… in dialogue with the visual. The scholarship of ekphrasis cites examples of poems written in response to painting, sculpture, photography and film but not to holography. This is practice-led research and my collection of poetry Equinoctial arising from it derives its structure, and the linguistic …
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Animals in Motion
… of the material animal body. Employing ekphrasis as their primary method, the poems intentionally blur these source images with their animal referents and human viewers in hopes of coaxing into the foreground the common imagination that governs them—an imagination that seeks to ward off …
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