Narrating the Un-narratable Painting — the Case of Ekphrastic Apokryphon (Joyce Carol Oates’s The Woman in the Window) Cover Image

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Narrating the Un-narratable Painting — the Case of Ekphrastic Apokryphon (Joyce Carol Oates’s The Woman in the Window)

Author(s): Julia Dynkowska
Subject(s): Library and Information Science, Studies of Literature
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a close-reading of Joyce Carol Oates’ short story The Woman in the Window inspired by Edward Hopper’s 11 A.M. An extensive narrative, which is overwritten over the painting and set in it’s space-time framework, enables the short story discussed herein to be considered as an ekphrastic apocryphon with subversive potential. Literary reaffirmation of the perspective of painted woman that is obviously omitted in Hopper’s masterpiece, allows for the alleged oppressiveness of the painting to be revealed.

  • Issue Year: 63/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 47-60
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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