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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 June 2025
- ISBN 9780198954484
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 220x140x15 mm
- Weight 424 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations 673
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Short description:
Since 2010, a number of Anglo-American novels on visual art have been published and critically acclaimed. Dr Behluli interprets this wave of novels as a particular literary genre: the 'ekphrastic novel'. These texts employ a highly visual mode of writing to negotiate the relationship between people and images in an age of digital media.
MoreLong description:
This book 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. In this way, ekphrastic novels present themselves as powerful practitioners and critics of contemporary image-making.
The book focuses on four aspects emerging from ekphrastic passages--value, form, affect, and scale--to explore critical questions posed by contemporary ekphrastic novels: Who has the power to assign value today, and at what cost? Which social, political, historical, cultural, and ethical dimensions are obscured by certain forms, and how can ekphrasis (re)introduce these aspects into public discourse? What affects do images and artworks elicit, and how do they reinforce or challenge existing value systems? How can narrative scale uncover potential injustices in the interplay between life and art? Moreover, what insights do ekphrastic novels offer into contemporary reading habits and strategies? By tracing a literary tradition from nineteenth-century to contemporary fiction and offering detailed close readings of several critically acclaimed and widely read contemporary novels, this book delves into the theoretical and practical intersections of ekphrasis and the novel.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Ekphrastic Novel Today
Ascriptions of Value
Describing Form
Ambiguous Affects
The Scale of Anger
Conclusion
