Apokryficzność i ekfrastyczność jako komplementarne poetyki intertekstualne
The Apocryphal and the Ekphrastic as a Complementary Intertextual Poetics

Author(s): Julia Dynkowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: ekphrasis; apocryphon; the apocryphal; the ekphrastic; intertextuality; intersemiotics
Summary/Abstract: The thesis The Apocryphal and the Ekphrastic as a Complementary Intertextual Poetics discusses the relation of the ekphrastic and apocryphal components in various ekphrastic texts based on the visual works of art. The dissertation is divided into 4 analytical chapters preceded by the theoretical introduction in which the categories of apocryphon and ekphrasis are presented. Furthermore, in this section two types of apocryphal and ekphrastic complementarities are proposed (apocryphal ekphrases/apocryphal ekphrastic texts and ekphrastic apocrypha). Examples of those complementarities are presented, analyzed and interpreted in the following sections. The intention behind the analysis in aforementioned sections is to prove the usefulness of category of an apocryphon in the ekphrastic studies. ‘The apocryphal’ provides suggestive conceptualization of animations and narrative augmentations of paintings and photographs inscribed in the ekphrases. What is more, there is an essential feature which connects all of the texts presented in this paper – each of them concerns the loss of ‘innocent look’ at the visual pre-texts, ways of thinking produced by them, canonical interpretations and idealizations of works of art, their authors and captured scenes or figures. Apocryphal-ekphrastic rewriting enables canonical artworks to be seen not only as aesthetical, but also (perhaps above all) ethical objects.

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