Architectural Ekphrasis: an Interpretative Model

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  • Miriam de Paiva Vieira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.2.241-260

Keywords:

architectural ekphrasis, literature, architecture, Carmen Oliveira, Michael Sledge, Elizabeth Bishop, Lota Macedo Soares

Abstract

Architectural ekphrasis is one of the possible medial procedures in the crossing of borders from architecture to literature. The aim of this essay is to present an interpretative model developed to the study of architectural ekphrasis. The proposed model will be illustrated by the Künstlerromane Flores raras e banalíssimas: a história de Lota de Macedo Soares e Elizabeth Bishop (1995), by Brazilian Carmen Oliveira, and The More I Owe You (2010), by American Michael Sledge.

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Miriam de Paiva Vieira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutora em Estudos Literários, Literatura Comparada, pela UFMG, com estágio de pesquisa na Universidade de Lund, Suécia. Professora Substituta da UFMG. faz residência pós doutoral no Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários da UFMG. Atua em pesquisa e docência na Área de Letras, com ênfase em Literaturas de Língua Inglesa e intermidialidade.

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2017-10-02

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Vieira, M. de P. (2017). Architectural Ekphrasis: an Interpretative Model. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 27(2), 241–260. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.2.241-260

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Vol. 27 No. 2 (2017): Literatura e Arte: as Fronteiras em Discussão

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Dossiê – Literatura e Arte: as Fronteiras em Discussão

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