Ekphrasis in Modern British Fiction a Pro-narrative Approach

Studies in Literature and Culture. Volume 12

Magdalena Sawa
ISBN: 978-83-8061-124-5
Stron: 188
Format: 220 x 205 mm
Rok wydania: 2015


CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: Ekphrasis and its pro-narrative inclination
1. The revival of ekphrasis in the twentieth century - Jean Hagstrum's pioneering work
1.1 Ekphrasis within pictorialism
2. The ekphrastic principle - Murray Krieger's theory of the role of ekphrasis in poetry
2.1 The ekphrastic principle elaborated
2.2 Krieger's standpoint criticised
3. The pro-narrative turn in studies of ekphrasis - James Heffernan's understanding of ekphrasis
3.1 Ekphrasis and pictorialism
3.2 Ekphrastic representations inherently yet paragonally bound with narrative
3.3 Heffernan's pro-narrative approach to ekphrasis evaluated
4. The pro-narrative advance in studies of ekphrasis - Tamar Yacobi's ekphrastic model (non-descriptive ekphrasis)
4.1 The ekphrastic model harmoniously (as opposed to paragonally) assimilated into narrative
4.2 Non-descriptive ekphrasis in collaboration with the temporal and logical aspect of narrative
4.3 The ekphrastic model versus descriptive ekphrasis
4.4 Yacobi's ekphrastic model criticised - Claus Clüver's advocacy of the necessary descriptiveness of ekphrasis
5. Ekphrasis versus "the ekphrastic" - Valerie Robillard's reconciliatory models of ekphrastic relations
5.1 The Scalar Model
5.2 The Differential Model
5.3 Ekphrastic theories reconciled
5.4 Pictorialism within ekphrasis
5.5 Differential Model as the model of the pro-narrative tendency within studies of ekphrasis
6. The equation of the ekphrastic model and descriptive ekphrasis
6.1 The ekphrastic model reconsidered
6.2 Affinities between the ekphrastic model and descriptive ekphrasis
6.3 Descriptive ekphrasis - the assets of representation
7. Conclusion

Chapter 2: Ekphrasis in the novel: theme and its exploration
1. The "treason of representation" in Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World
1.1 The evasiveness of the narrator's story
1.2 The Tortoise's self-portrait as notional ekphrasis at the service of an abstract notion
1.3 "The floating world" - a metaphor and an ekphrastic model 2. Julian Barnes's A History of the World in ... one picture
2.1 Barnes's vision of history
2.2 Barnes's vision of History
2.3 Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa - Barnes's and White's criticism of historiography encapsulated
3. Conclusion

Chapter 3: Ekphrasis in the novel: plot and temporality
1. Ekphastic description as a dynamic and dynamising element in Michael Frayn's Headlong
1.1 Betrayal of nominalism - Martin's notion of the country
1.2 Nominalism avenged - Martin's idea of Bruegelness
1.3 Inversion of purpose
1.4 Yacobi's departicularised and brief allusion made particular and exhaustively represented
2. From Romantic urn to postmodern vase: Krieger's atemporal ekphrasis challenged by Tibor Fischer's The Collector Collector
2.1 Personification as representation
2.2 Keats's urn versus Fischer's vase: parody and criticism
2.2.1 Ekphrasis and temporality
3. Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography