Abstract:Today, world literature can be understood as including the literatures of the world, especially those that have been underrepresented before. It may also be associated with other arts such as painting and examine intertextual and intermedial relations to the construct of "the canon". Therefore, in this essay, I examine the role of ekphrasis in Louise Erdrich's artist novel Shadow Tag (2010) with the help of Laura Eidt's typology for the analysis of ekphrases in literature and film. In the novel, fictional pain… Show more
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