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

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 117
• Author: Eidt, Laura M. Sager.
• Έτος έκδοσης: 2008
• Γλώσσα: English
• Σειρά: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 117.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Σημειώσεις: Originally written as author's dissertation, University of Texas in Austin.; Works of art by Goya, Rembrandt and Vermeer are analyzed.

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...