Cinematic Ekphrasis and its Narrative Implications

• In recent years, the classical figure of ekphrasishas proved to be a very fruitful concept especially in the field of intermedialstudies. Theorists such as J. A. W. Heffernan, W. J. T. Mitchell, M. Kriegerand C. Clüver have contributed to the definition of ekphrasis, progressivelyenlarging its borders beyond the image-word relation. However, in Clüver’sdefinition of ekphrasis as the “verbalization of a real or fictitious textcomposed in a non-verbal sign system”, the focus remains on the verbal natureof the target medium. Following S. Bruhn, L. Sager Eidt and A. Pethö, we aim atquestioning this limitation by showing that the concept of ekphrasis iscritically viable even when the target is not verbal. Our examples will becases of cinematic ekphrasis, where energeiaand repurposing, two crucial aspectsof ekphrasis, both with narrative implications, are achieved by other meansthan only language. By doing this we join the post-classical narratologicaldiscourse and its increased interest in the question of narrative in non-verbalforms.

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HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

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ekphrasis

cinematic ekphrasis

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