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- Title
Artistic Adaptation: Ekphrasis in Pakistani Poetry in English.
- Authors
Raza, Amra
- Abstract
This article examines the dynamics of ekphrastic adaptation in Pakistani poetry in English through exploring the methods and concerns of poets who transfer the visual representation of an object of art into the medium of poetry, using poems on tapestry, artifact, sculpture, music, and film. The study analyzes the way the poet engages in recreating the artist's visual or aural representation. Ekphrasis gives voice to the voiceless, and animates frozen forms, thus establishing that the best way to apprehend reality is through illusion.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; LITERARY adaptations; PAKISTANI poetry (English); PAKISTANI literature; EKPHRASIS; ART in literature; POETS; SCULPTURE; ART &; literature
- Publication
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2008, Issue 28, p188
- ISSN
1110-8673
- Publication type
Literary Criticism