Między ekfrazą i apokryfem. O wybranych tekstach Jacka Dehnela
Between Ekphrasis and Apocrypha. On selected texts by Jacek Dehnel

Author(s): Julia Dynkowska
Subject(s): Photography, Visual Arts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, History of Art
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: ekphrasis; apocryphon; Jacek Dehnel; painting; photography;
Summary/Abstract: The paper concerns peculiar literary genre—ekphrasis (a literary description of work of art). Basing on selected (prose and poetic) texts by Polish writer Jacek Dehnel, which involve photography and painting, I am trying to examine if (and to what extent) the category of apocryphon may be adapted for research on ekphrasis. The category of apocryphon describes not only texts which supplement The Bible or literary mystifications, but also (prototypically) literary works in which “so-called modern realities are left more or less intact” (D. Szajnert’s suggestion) and which are filling up or amplifying narrations from works of fiction considered as canonical (e.g. short stories from Karel Čapek’s Kniha apokryfů).

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