EKPHRASIS IN ARTS AND WONDERS BY GREGORY NORMINTON: GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOIDO AND TOMMASO GRILLI

Liudmyla Harmash
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The article reveals some features of postmodern aesthetics that were borrowed by modern literature from romantics, and are now undergoing a period of criticism. It is shown how a fiction reflects the continuity between contemporary literature and previous literary phenomena, which consists in the perception, transformation, and critical rethinking of aesthetic ideas and concepts. For this purpose, the genesis of Norminton’s novel Arts and Wonders was traced and a literary technique such as ekphrasis, that means a verbal description of a painting, was researched. An analysis of the two most significant ekphrasises – Vertumn and The Librarian – showed that the author of the novel raises the problem of copy or plagiarism, which today has gained particular relevance both in the world of art and in the academic environment. It was showed that Norminton solves this issue by referring to the traditional concept of mimesis. Despite the declaration of the need to imitate nature, Arts and Wonders demonstrates that the contemporary author asserts his right to free creative imagination, including the interpretation of historical facts and figures. The literary text refers to the artifacts which are presented in the arsenal of culture that are freely combined according to a kaleidoscope principle. Raising the question of the dialectical unity of such aesthetic categories as “beauty” and “ugliness”, Norminton enters into a polemic with the forerunner of postmodernism – romanticism. At the same time, the writer also poses questions about the correlation in the artist’s work of parts and the whole, about the need to achieve a balance of proportions between the elements that make up a work of art. Determining the genre originality of the novel, the author of the article concludes that it is a complex synthetic form that combines the features of picaresque novel, a biographical novel, a travel book, a historical novel, an artist's novel, and a Bildungsroman, which as a result forms a new genre variety – an adventure novel about the artist.
格里高利·诺明顿的《艺术与奇迹中的短语》:giuseppe arcimboido和tommaso grilli
本文揭示了现代文学从浪漫主义文学中借鉴而来的后现代美学的一些特征,这些特征正在经历一段批判时期。小说反映了当代文学与以往文学现象之间的连续性,这种连续性包括对审美观念和审美观念的感知、转化和批判性反思。为此,我们追溯了诺明顿小说《艺术与奇迹》的起源,并研究了一种文学技巧,如ekphrasis,这意味着对一幅画的口头描述。对两个最重要的短语——Vertumn和the Librarian——的分析表明,小说的作者提出了复制或剽窃的问题,这在今天的艺术世界和学术环境中都获得了特别的相关性。结果表明,诺明顿通过参考传统的模仿概念来解决这一问题。尽管《艺术与奇观》宣称需要模仿自然,但它表明,当代作者主张自由创作想象力的权利,包括对历史事实和人物的解释。文学文本是指按照万花筒原理自由组合在一起的文化武器库中的人工制品。诺明顿提出“美”与“丑”等美学范畴的辩证统一问题,与后现代主义的先驱者——浪漫主义展开了论战。同时,作者也对艺术家作品中部分与整体的关系提出了疑问,关于构成艺术作品的元素之间需要达到比例平衡的问题。在确定小说的体裁原创性时,作者认为它是一种综合了流浪汉小说、传记小说、旅行小说、历史小说、艺术家小说、成长小说等特点的复杂的综合形式,从而形成了一种新的体裁品种——艺术家的冒险小说。
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