Art in contemporary Anglo-American fiction : the ekphrastic novel / Sofie Behluli.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Behluli, Sofie, author.

Series:

• Oxford English monographs.
• Oxford scholarship online.
• Oxford English monographs
• Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ekphrasis.
• American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
• Art in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This volume addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary sub-genre, which is here termed as the 'ekphrastic novel'. These novels are distinguished by their systematic use of ekphrasis which creatively and critically negotiates the intertwined aesthetics of literature and visual art. By addressing the challenge of representing visual images such as photographs, paintings, and art installations with words, these novels reveal a greater interest in exploring how and why we engage with art, rather than merely depicting the art itself.

Contents:

• Cover
• Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Value, Form, Affect, and Scale
• Ekphrasis and the Novel
• Chapter Overview
• 1: Ascriptions of Value
• Engagements with the Past in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch
• The Novel, the Painting, and the Antique Chair
• Between Galatea and Art Critic
• 2: Describing Form
• Form as Frame in Amy Sackville's Painter to the King
• Portraits of the Painter and the King
• Wives, Whores, and Women Artists
• Frame Narrations and Other Frames
• 3: Ambiguous Affects
• Seeing Suffering in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life
• 'Disfigured' Faces and Representations of Suffering
• Invasive Ekphrases and Suffering Bodies
• 4: The Scale of Anger
• Leaving the Doll's House in Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs
• Doubling the Artist Figure
• Room Installations and Doll's Houses
• Angry Little Dolls
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 8, 2025).

ISBN:

• 0-19-895451-4
• 0-19-895449-2

OCLC:

1518930295