Description and its subject: through the eyes of the observer

0433003 - ÚČL 2015 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Fedrová, Stanislava
Description and its subject: through the eyes of the observer.
On Description. Praha: Akropolis, 2014 - (Jedličková, A.), s. 97-115. ISBN 978-80-7470-058-3.
[O popisu/On Description. Praha (CZ), 14.11.2013-14.11.2013]
R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP406/12/1711
Institutional support: RVO:68378068
Keywords : intermediality * literary description * ekphrasis * visual studies
OECD category: Specific literatures

The category of beholder as key mediator of the surrounding world (or its image) in an artwork results from confrontation of verbal and visual descriptivity. The paper focuses on the role of beholder and the influence of processes of her perception on the descriptive structure. It seems inevitable to inquire into the ways and devices of transforming the perspective of a character into narratorial discourse or into that of an implied beholder. Concurrently, it is necessary to differentiate between the mode of beholder where emphasize is on perception, and the mode of interpreter, i. e. such apprehension of the world, which employs e. g. pictorial models and cultural/visual concepts intently in order to induce evocation or visualization in readers. The paper examines the assumed “objectivity” or noninterpretative character of description by displaying a variety of observer’s perspectives in description and also in ekphrasis as a specific type of description.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0237288