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- Title
Ekphrasis and Lamination in Byatt's Babel Tower.
- Authors
Stewart, Jack
- Abstract
A. S. Byatt's Babel Tower explores a postmodern world in which discursive systems clash and compete. Adopting critical distinctions between actual ekphrasis ("literary representation of visual art"), notional ekphrasis ("verbal representation of a purely fictional work of art"), and pictorialism ("effects [in language] similar to those created by pictures"), I examine the relation of Byatt's writing to the visual arts. The focal point is a comparison of "lamination," the layering of disconnected narrative panels or intertexts, with "overpainting," a layering of pigments that subsumes previous work without removing all traces.
- Publication
Style, 2009, Vol 43, Issue 4, p494
- ISSN
0039-4238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5325/style.43.4.0494