... landscapes of our digital age. Against the backdrop of intermediality theory, my functional analysis of the cultural work of ekphrasis builds its argument on the analysis of three novels: No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2014), Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2013), and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011). I...

... and cultural functions in the present media ecology. Despite its increasing frequency in recent years, theoretical conceptualizations have largely remained committed to traditional paradigms, such as competition (“paragone”) and representation ( Heffernan 1993 : 1). What appears to be wanting is a revival...

... to cultural memory by reinforcing certain images and ideas. With the increasing frequency of ekphrasis and its spread to popular nar- ratives in recent years, ekphrastic writing has accrued different functions. These functions are my focus in this article. I hope to shed some light on the current use...

... Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500 ( New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ). Clüver Claus 1997 “ Ekphrasis Reconsidered: On Verbal Representations of Non-Verbal Texts, ” in Lagerroth et al. 1997 : 19 – 33 . 1998 “ Quotation, Enargeia, and the Functions of Ekphrasis...

... Lagerroth, Hans Lund, and Erik Hedling, 19 -34 (Amsterdam: Rodopi). 1998 “Quotation, Enargeia, and the Functions of Ekphrasis,” in Pictures into Words: Theoretical and Descriptive Approaches to Ekphrasis , edited by Valerie Robillard and Els Jongeneel, 35 -52 (Amsterdam: VU University Press...

... effects of representation or of image- making within the mind of the reader. What distinguishes a digital ekphrasis from its more traditional relatives in rhetoric and print is that it can and does exploit a type of visuality based on generating and mapping images external to the mind. The function...

...Liliane Louvel This article aims at offering a reassessment of ekphrasis, expanding on the definitions in work by Tamar Yacobi and James A. W. Heffernan, to name only two. It aims to distinguish between different types of ekphrasis according to the various functions it may assume: narrativizing...

... : 599 -649. 2000 “Interart Narrative: (Un)Reliability and Ekphrasis,” Poetics Today 21 : 711 -49. 2002 “Ekphrasis and Perspectival Structure,” in Cultural Functions of Intermedial Exploration , edited by E. Hedling and U.-B. Lagerroth, 189 -202 (Amsterdam: Rodopi). Zelizer, Barbie...

...,” Poetics Today 16 : 599 -649. 1998a “The Ekphrastic Model: Forms and Functions,” in Pictures into Words: Theoretical and Descriptive Approaches to Ekphrasis , edited by Valerie Robillard and Els Jongeneel, 21 -34 (Amsterdam: VU University Press). 1998b “ Ekphrasis from the Perspective...

...—in this instance, by demonstrating that view- ers of a painting may receive quite different messages and that the message a viewer receives offers information about the sophistication of the mind that creates the ekphrasis. To continue exploring the effects of cultural variation among viewers...

.... 1999: 638 -73. Badia, Janet, and Jennifer Phegley, eds. 2005 Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). Bollmann, Stefan 2005 Frauen, die lesen, sind gefährlich (Munich: Elisabeth Sandmann). 2006...

... and Representation,” New Literary History 22: 297–316. 1993 Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Hicks, Bob 2008 “‘At Freedom’s Door’: Novels in Paint, Provocations in Fabric,” Art Scatter: A Portland- Centric Arts and Culture...

... Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography , translated by R. Howard (London: Fontana Paperbacks). Beloff, Halla 1985 Camera Culture (Oxford: Blackwell). Boehm, Gottfried 1995 “Bildbeschreibung. Über die Grenzen von Bild und Sprache,” in Beschreibungskunst—Kunstbeschreibung. Ekphrasis von...

... in Method , translated by Jane E. Lewin (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press). Goodman, Nelson 1978 “Some Questions concerning Quotation,” in Ways of Worldmaking , 41 -56 (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett). Heffernan, James A. W. 1991 “Ekphrasis and Representation,” New Literary History 22 : 297...

...), and the substantial body of work on ekphrasis indicate that the relationship between the ver- bal and the visual in literary description is a topic of widespread concern (see, for example, Yacobi 1995, 2000; Francis 2003; Zanker 2004; Bartsch and Elsner 2007). There has also been extensive discussion...

..., rise, and (per- haps) climax of the postmodernist mode in North America. Moreover, the shifts in that long poetic career seem to parallel, when they do not actually anticipate, shifts in postmodernism across a range of cultural practices.The disjunctiveness of Ashbery’s early poetry, peaking...

... 2008 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 372 Poetics Today 29:2 to Propp’s insights and develop them into a universal plot structure made up of nine narrative functions. All plots, she argues, begin with (A) a desta- bilizing event and continue with (B) a request for someone...

...“spatial form”) as an interaction of the axes of world and composition, as well as in relation to temporality. Time-space organization functions in this context as an image of the world and as a device for activating the reader. Historically, the changing hierarchy between world and composition...

... have as literature. 9. It should be emphasized that this article deals exclusively with US novelizations and their marketing strategies. In other countries types of novelization have developed that function quite differently. For detailed information about European and particularly French...

... ,'' Poetics Today 16 : 599 – 649 . 2000 `` Interart Narrative: (Un)Reliability and Ekphrasis ,'' Poetics Today 21 : 708 – 47 . 2001 `` Package Deals: The Narrator's (Un)Reliability ,'' Narrative 9 : 223 – 29 . 2002 `` Ekphrasis and Perspectival Structure ,'' in Cultural Functions...