EKPHRASIS – BETWEEN THE REPRESENTATION OF SPEECH AND THE VERBAL REPRESENTATION OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION
EKPHRASIS – BETWEEN THE REPRESENTATION OF SPEECH AND THE VERBAL REPRESENTATION OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION

Summary/Abstract: Defining written language as a representation of oral language has been considered as resembling the association of painting and poetry, which has further permitted theorists to focus on the manner visual representations are turned into verbal representations. This represents a definition of ekphrasis set forth by several twentieth-century critics and theorists in their strife for settling down an issue that haunted human mind and perception throughout history: from the doctrine of Řut pictura poesisř and the simplest meaning of ekphrasis, as a description of a work of visual art, to the subsequent generalizing principle, emphasizing the Ŗstill momentŗ that freezes literatureřs temporality into the spatiality of the visual representation, ekphrasis appears to be given infinite possibilities.

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