Powrót do ekfrazy. Próba systematyzacji oraz propozycja typologii
Returning to Ekphrasis: A Possible Systematization and Typology

Summary/Abstract: Słodczyk takes a comparative approach to re-examine our understanding of ekphrasis and to propose an operational typology. First she draws on influential definitions of ekphrasis by scholars such as Spitzer, Hollander, Krieger, Heffernan, Mitchell, Clüver and Webb, then she looks back at the sources and examines the Antique rhetorical tradition, i.e. the Greek progymnasmata, Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria and Eikones (or Images) by Philostratus of Lemnos. The ancient understanding of ekphrasis, linked to figures of visualization such as enargeia and hypotyposis, is confronted with contemporary perspectives. This allows Słodczyk to highlight similarities as well as differences, and to identify the semantic shift that has taken place in definitions of ekphrasis. In the final part of the article she offers a prescriptive take on ekphrasis and proposes a systematization based, for instance, on translation studies, with a division into critical and literary ekphrasis, whereby the latter is again categorized into connotational, denotational and combinational ekphrasis.

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