Writing and filming the painting : ekphrasis in literature and film /

Writing and filming the painting : ekphrasis in literature and film / / Laura M. Sager Eidt.

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This innovative interdisciplinary study compares the uses of painting in literary texts and films. In developing a framework of four types of ekphrasis, the author argues for the expansion of the concept of ekphrasis by demonstrating its applicability as interpretive tool to films about the visual a...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 117
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Eidt, Laura M. Sager.
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 117.
Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
Notes:
  • Originally written as author's dissertation, University of Texas in Austin.
  • Works of art by Goya, Rembrandt and Vermeer are analyzed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Toward a Definition of Ekphrasis in Literature and Film
  • Methodology
  • Goya’s Sleep of Reason in Poetry, Drama, and Film: Dramatizing the Artist’s Battle with his Creatures
  • Goya’s Sleep of Reason in Lion Feuchtwanger’s Novel and Konrad Wolf’s Film Adaptation: Private or Social Demons?
  • From Screenplay to Film: Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits and Social Identity Construction through Ekphrasis
  • Vermeer’s Women in Film and Fiction: Ekphrasis and Gendered Structures of Vision
  • Conclusion: The Cerebral and the Affective Function of Ekphrasis
  • Works Cited
  • Filmography
  • List of Illustrations/Image Credits.

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