Original title: Description and its subject: through the eyes of the observer
Authors: Fedrová, Stanislava
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: O popisu/On Description, Praha (CZ), 2013-11-14 / 2013-11-14
Year: 2014
Language: eng
Abstract: The category of beholder as key mediator of the surrounding world (or its image) in an artwork results from confrontation of verbal and visual descriptivity. The paper focuses on the role of beholder and the influence of processes of her perception on the descriptive structure. It seems inevitable to inquire into the ways and devices of transforming the perspective of a character into narratorial discourse or into that of an implied beholder. Concurrently, it is necessary to differentiate between the mode of beholder where emphasize is on perception, and the mode of interpreter, i. e. such apprehension of the world, which employs e. g. pictorial models and cultural/visual concepts intently in order to induce evocation or visualization in readers. The paper examines the assumed “objectivity” or noninterpretative character of description by displaying a variety of observer’s perspectives in description and also in ekphrasis as a specific type of description.
Keywords: ekphrasis; intermediality; literary description; visual studies
Project no.: GAP406/12/1711 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR
Host item entry: On Description, ISBN 978-80-7470-058-3

Institution: Institute of Czech Literature AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0237288

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