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The Ekphrasis of the Victorian House


IOANA BOGHIAN
“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania

Issue:

CP, Number 15

Section:

No. 15 (2010)  Editorial

Abstract:

The aim of this paper is to identify the ekphrastic representation of houses and paintings in Victorian novels, and to define the functions of ekphrasis in various instances. The paper also approaches the relationship between real Victorian houses and fictional/‘ekphrastic’ houses and characters as painters, and the ekphrastic representation of paintings and portraits in Victorian novels, with a view to outlining a different mode of signification: the ekphrastic mode.

Keywords:

ekphrasis, house, reality, fiction, painting, representation, signification.

Code [ID]:

CP201015V00S01A0001 [0003323]


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