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(1997) has expanded the range <strong>of</strong> ekphrastic objects, discussing not only poems<br />

about paintings but also about “uncanonical art forms such as television,<br />

photography, comics, and cinem<strong>at</strong>ography.” 25 In the same year, Claus Clüver<br />

proposes a yet more “radical revision <strong>of</strong> the concept th<strong>at</strong> would lead to a<br />

considerable extension” (“Ekphrasis” 23). This extension consists not only in<br />

broadening the definition to include as the object <strong>of</strong> ekphrasis any discourse<br />

composed in a non-verbal sign system, but moreover, his proposal implies th<strong>at</strong><br />

ekphrasis would also include both the tableau vivant and the<strong>at</strong>ricaliz<strong>at</strong>ion (26),<br />

two terms eminently relevant for the notion <strong>of</strong> filmic ekphrasis.<br />

Having expanded the second part <strong>of</strong> the ekphrastic equ<strong>at</strong>ion, Clüver<br />

proceeds to revise the first part a year l<strong>at</strong>er. R<strong>at</strong>her than “verbal represent<strong>at</strong>ion” he<br />

argues for the term “verbaliz<strong>at</strong>ion” which is less tied to mimesis than the<br />

traditional term, yet retains a certain degree <strong>of</strong> enargeia inherent in and central to<br />

ekphrasis. 26 Thus, he defines the concept as “the verbaliz<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> real or fictitious<br />

texts composed in a non-verbal sign system” (49). Likewise, Tamar Yacobi has<br />

shown in various essays th<strong>at</strong> ekphrasis can include a mere allusion to an<br />

“ekphrastic model” or an “ekphrastic simile” <strong>of</strong> no more than one phrase. 27 Both<br />

generally invoke a pictorial model r<strong>at</strong>her than a specific painting (such as a Last<br />

25 Margaret Persin, Getting the Picture: <strong>The</strong> Ekphrastic Principle in Twentieth-Century Spanish<br />

Poetry (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP; London: Associ<strong>at</strong>ed UP, 1997) 19.<br />

26 Claus Clüver, “Quot<strong>at</strong>ion, Enargeia, and the Function <strong>of</strong> Ekphrasis,” Pictures into Words:<br />

<strong>The</strong>oretical and Descriptive Approaches to Ekphrasis, eds. Valerie Robillard and Els Jongeneel<br />

(Amsterdam: VU <strong>University</strong> Press, 1998) 45.<br />

27 Tamar Yacobi, “<strong>The</strong> Ekphrastic Model: Forms and Functions,” Pictures into Words:<br />

<strong>The</strong>oretical and Descriptive Approaches to Ekphrasis, eds. Valerie Robillard and Els Jongeneel<br />

(Amsterdam: VU <strong>University</strong> Press, 1998) 21-34; “Verbal Frames and Ekphrastic Figur<strong>at</strong>ion,”<br />

Interart Poetics: Essays on the Interrel<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>of</strong> the Arts and Media, ed. Ulla-Britta Lagerroth,<br />

Hans Lund, and Erik Hedling (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997) 35-46.<br />

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