Intermedial dialogue between literature and painting in the works by V.V. Nabokov.

ZHULKOVA K.A.

Abstract

The review focuses on the intermedial dialogue between literature and painting in Nabokov’s Russian-language writings. It shows how ekphrasis, pseudoekphrasis and painting techniques create a unique poetics of visualizing philosophical ideas in Nabokov’s works and thus increase possibilities of the language of fiction.

Keywords

V.V. Nabokov; intermedial allusions; literature; painting; ekphrasis; pseudoekphrasis.

DOI: 10.31249/lit/2021.02.04

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