Ekphrasis in contemporary English novels
This article identifies the role of ekphrasis, based on its selected functions — the chronotop, didactic, metanarrative, and storyline ones. An analysis of short stories by J. Barnes, J. Fowles and A. S. Byatt carried out within such a framework makes it possible to speak of a connection between ekphrasis and various structural levels of a work and its contribution to the creation of literary meanings.
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The intermedial features of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “musical short story” Nocturne
The article traces the genre characteristics of the “musical” nocturne used by Kazuo Ishiguro in his prose “stories” (a range of themes related to the musical biography of the main character-musician, the distinctive musicality of landscape ... ... “musical story” as such. The problem of musical intermediality and the specifics of its verbal organization in Ishiguro’s short story Nocturne allow for the characterization of a broader range of techniques for conveying the “musicality” of the ...
