Ja prototüübist sai stereotüüp... Eesti algupärane kunstnikuromaan, vagajutu ja naistepõlguse intertekst
And Prototype Turns to a Stereotype... Vernacular Estonian Artist Novel, an Intertext of Pious Fable and Misogyny

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the vernacular Estonian artist novel and the ways art historical narratives are adapted to it. With the integration of literary fiction with an art historical foundation, a recurring discursive pattern is observed in novels: echoing Christian martyrdom, Estonian artist novels feature the archetype of the evangelical passion story. However, as the protagonists in these cases are rendered as ‘tortured geniuses’, exclusively male and almost exclusively embodying the heroic-masculine outsider stereotype, a critical eye has also been cast upon the novels from a feminist perspective: questioning the malecentric and misogynistic sub-discourse of artistic history in literary fiction.

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