REVERSED EKPHRASIS AND THE CONVERSION OF LITERARY SOURCE TEXTS INTO VISUAL ART TARGET TEXTS
REVERSED EKPHRASIS AND THE CONVERSION OF LITERARY SOURCE TEXTS INTO VISUAL ART TARGET TEXTS

Summary/Abstract: When attempting at analysing the manner a literary source text is turned into a visual art target text, through reversed ekphrasis, the most important element to focus upon is the perception of the conversion process as an achievement, which is entitled to its own identity and which, although being originated in the literary source text, develops along its innate laws. Accordingly, while focusing on how literary texts are conversed by painters, with a view to be transferred from one medium to the other, it is necessary not to leave aside the fact that the target visual texts, having emerged through reversed ekphrasis, require to be dealt upon both in terms of their artistic excellence and in terms of their condition as transpositions of literary source texts.

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