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Ekphrasis Refigured: Writing Seeing in Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 45, Number 3, September 2012
- pp. 33-48
- 10.1353/mos.2012.0032
- Article
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Noting the extensive and sustained engagement with visual media in many contemporary American novels, this essay argues that the notion of ekphrasis as a critical notion must be reconceptualized in order to accommodate the complexity of the relations between new literary expressions and the visual.