Ekphrasis and Intersemiotic Transposition: Literature, Visual Arts, and Culture
Keywords:
literature and visual arts, intersemiotic relations, intercultural communication, transposition, ekphrasis, palimpsest, American poetry, Williams, William Carlos, Auden, Wystan Hugh, Macedonian poetry, Koneski, Blaže, Andreevski, Petre M., Urošević, VladaAbstract
This article analyses the inter-semiotic transposition of two poems from the Anglo-American poetic tradition (the poems “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by W. C. Williams and “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden) and three poems that are representative of contemporary Macedonian poetry (“A Visit to a Museum” by Blaže Koneski, “The Soldiers of Xi’an” by Petre M. Andreevski, and “St. Tryphon, Nerezi” by Vlada Urošević ). It proposes an analysis of the process of ekphrasis (description of visual works of art) from two aspects: 1) as a kind of “translation/transposition” of the image into text, and 2) as a form of intercultural communication through the act of commenting on a painting.References
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