Essays about: "ekphrasis"

Found 2 essays containing the word ekphrasis.

1. 1. “There’s More to Life ThanSitting There SimplyInterfacing” : David Foster Wallace and his Reader in a Literature afterPostmodernism

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Andrea Minucci; [2018]
   Keywords : David; Foster; Wallace; Postmodernism; Literature; Infinite; Jest; Death of the Author; media studies; image-fiction; intermediality; transmediality; narrative; theory; narratology; heteroglossia; ekphrasis;

   Abstract : David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had passed the point which it could still be considered a'revolutionary' cultural phenomenon. He felt that the capitalistic machinery of TVand advertisement had absorbed the postmodernist techniques of pastiche,deconstruction and rejection of a distinction between high and low culturalmodels, to a point where there was no longer a difference between reality and itsown representation. READ MORE

3. 2. A Study of Art and Aestheticism in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Jenny Siméus; [2004]
   Keywords : art; aestheticism; Oscar Wilde; The Picture of Dorian Gray; ekphrasis;

   Abstract : My twofold aim with this essay is, firstly, to examine the ideas about art expressed in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by the Victorian author Oscar Wilde. Secondly, I analyse how Oscar Wilde has implemented the philosophy of aestheticism throughout his novel. READ MORE