Picture quote (literature)

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The term literary image quotation includes literary texts or text excerpts that refer to works of the visual arts . Thus, literary image quotations are cases of intermediality - the transfer of visual content into the medium of language. One of the most prominent examples in German-language literature is the novel " The Aesthetics of Resistance " by Peter Weiss .

Closely related to the concept of the picture quotation is the ekphrasis , the literary description of a work of art. In contrast to the ekphrasis, however, the literary picture quotation also includes the non-descriptive naming or allusion of works.

Forms of literary picture quotation

The literary picture quotation can refer to concrete works of art as well as to groups of works and picture details; References to individual styles can also be counted as part of the picture quotation, as can references to fictitious works of art.

The type of reference is independent of the cited work of art: The clearest case is the naming of works of art. Even the explicit description of a work of art without directly mentioning the title still reveals that it is a picture quote. Elsewhere, only structural and / or content-related aspects of a work of art are incorporated into the text - for example, as elements of the plot or the perception of protagonists or narrators - without revealing the link to the work of art.

Image quotations appear in all literary genres, in prose, poetry (see picture poem ) and dramatic texts.

Readings of literary picture quotations

Literary picture quotations are examined, among other things, with regard to the function of the quotation as a carrier of meaning in the text. As in other cases of intermediality, image quotations can bring aesthetic aspects into focus or address fictionality as such (cf. metafiction ). The specifics of the transfer of a work of art (as a visual medium) into a literary text opens up a look at intermedia aspects, the question of the change that a work of art undergoes through its verbalization. From a cultural studies perspective, the specific cultural context of a picture quotation can be dealt with - for example, the changes that picture interpretations experience over time.

Examples

  • Silvio Blatter: Two monkeys. Cologne 2008.
  • Gert Hofmann: The fall of the blind. Darmstadt u. Neuwied 1985.
  • Gisbert Kranz: German sculptures in German poetry. Munich 1975.
  • Gisbert Kranz: Poems on Pictures. Anthology and gallery. Munich 1975.
  • Wilfried Steiner: Bacon's darkness. Vienna 2010.
  • Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance. Frankfurt am Main 1975–1981.

literature

  • Thomas Eicher: Art and Literature. In: Ansgar Nünning (ed.): Metzler Lexikon literary and cultural theory. Stuttgart and Weimar 2008, p. 408f.
  • Heide Eilert: The art quote in narrative poetry. Studies on literature around 1900. Stuttgart 1991.
  • Konstanze Fliedl, Marina Rauchbacher and Joanna Wolf (eds.): Handbook of Art Quotes. Painting, sculpture, photography in German-language modern literature. 2 vols. Berlin and Boston 2011.
  • Manfred Kern: Noble drops from the Helikon: for allusive reception of ancient mythology in German courtly poetry and epic. Chapter The picture quotation from the Crone to the Minnelehre , pp. 321–397. Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam 1998. ISBN 9042003790 . Book preview on google
  • Werner Wolf: Intermediality. In: Ansgar Nünning (ed.): Metzler Lexikon literary and cultural theory. Stuttgart and Weimar 2008, p. 327f.

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