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Intermedia poetics (of landscape)
Jedličková, Alice
After surveying the current state of literary and cultural studies which may contribute to intermedia research, the author suggests a literature-centred intermedia poetics of landscape, involving inter-art concepts introduced by Mary Ann Caws, Tamar Yacobi and incentives for landscape observation as given by literary critics and art historians such as Malcolm Andrews and Michael Charlesworth. Particular aspects of the suggested poetics are illustrated by examples of analysis of Czech fiction (Karel Václav Rais, Alois Jirásek and Martin Fibiger).
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The role of the beholder in ekphrasis
Fedrová, Stanislava
The status of the beholder, whether through the physical process of looking or his existential experience, is a principal formative element in ekphrastic texts. This study defines three possible approaches: in the first the beholder is like a character in a fictional world and at the same time a visual representation. This character is part of the story, so this version of ekphrasis is formed by the role played in the story. The second type is the character as a mediator of the world of visual experience. As the viewer sinks into the depths of the image by means of a Rückenfigur which has already entered it, this beholder is a mediator in ekphrasis, thanks to whom the reader acquires the perspective of a joint beholder. The third type, the beholder as interpreter, points to the basic techniques for the formation of ekphrasis: correlativization with another visual representation or pictorial model, the grounding of the narrative plain and associative play with the form of the observed.
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