Sunt lacrimae rerum: ekphrasis and empathy in three encounters between a text and a picture

Amir, Ayala

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“…Communication is a key in teaching literature as we are art educators who need to encourage our students to expand consciousness and think and see the texts being studied to find their own identity and create a persona out of their own imagination, cultural background, and personal reflections. 29 The combined arts strategies reinforce several communication strategies. First, is the communication of the text, its multiple contexts, and the students' capability of empathising with diverse formations.…”

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Verbal and Visual Arts Engagement in University Classrooms

Alfuhayd

2021

Journal of Language, Literature and Culture

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This article examines the efficacy of various interdisciplinary methods in creating more effectively developed teaching and learning of English poetry. Worldwide, poetry's prestige in academia within the humanities curriculum has declined. In Saudi universities, poetry is one of the most difficult literary courses taught in English departments, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University is no exception. For these reasons, there is a need to explore new pedagogies in poetry teaching. This article introduces a new intersection of verbal and visual arts contexts in female basic-and advanced-level classrooms. This paper focuses on twofold approaches, first is the theoretical (verbal) where the overall artistic evaluation is delineated. Second is the empirical approach (visual) when the concrete pictures of the poems are made. Next, the paper analyses the pictures through the lens of multimodal theory highlighting the learning outcomes and skills the arts-based classroom generates, amongst which are creative thinking, emotional intelligence and problem solving.

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Section: Communication Skillsmentioning

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Verbal and Visual Arts Engagement in University Classrooms

Alfuhayd

2021

Journal of Language, Literature and Culture

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“…30 On Ovid, transition and ekphrasis see Lovatt (2013: 177-80). On duality of irony and empathy in the ekphrasis of Juno's temple, see Amir (2009). 31 On scene changes in Virgil and Statius, see Lovatt (forthcoming).…”

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Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2

Lovatt¹

2020

Metalepsis

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This chapter investigates the emotional function of metalepsis by considering the case of Virgil, Aeneid 2, a book which combines intense emotion with great narrative complexity. Analysing multiple metaleptic features in the book, it offers a model for reading emotional intensity in terms of immersion and alienation, and concludes that metalepsis may paradoxically both alienate readers and intensify their emotional engagement. The chapter begins by exploring the layered first-person narratives produced by Aeneas and Sinon, both of whom use their grief to establish authority and create a positive reception. It argues that the constant interplay between the levels of the external narrator and these two internal ones creates dissonances for readers, but ultimately intensifies the emotional response of the various levels of audience, both internal (Dido) and external. The chapter then demonstrates that moments of narrative transition are often characterized both by emotional intensity and by lack of narrative realism, opening up the potential for metalepsis by means such as anachronism and simile. A study of the deaths of Polites and Priam shows how puns, intertextual references, and connections to the contemporary world of author and audience can all serve to enhance immediacy even when one might expect them to create distance. Finally, the chapter asks in what sense one can really say with Genette that Virgil ‘has Dido die’, making the case that the death of Dido, too, is a metaleptic moment with paradoxical emotional effects.

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Sunt lacrimae rerum: ekphrasis and empathy in three encounters between a text and a picture

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Verbal and Visual Arts Engagement in University Classrooms

Verbal and Visual Arts Engagement in University Classrooms

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