Visual inspirations of A Little Life

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dc.contributor.authorOzmen, Cansu Ozge
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-29T17:58:36Z
dc.date.available2024-10-29T17:58:36Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentTekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractHanya Yanagihara's critically acclaimed second novel A Little Life was published in 2015 and despite its length and disturbing thematic concerns soon became a bestseller. Yanagihara has laid her creative process bare in various interviews and has been open about the intermedial inspiration she has drawn from photography and painting. These sources provide an opportunity for the scholar to accurately and precisely trace how visual arts interact with the text before, during, and even after its conception. Critics predominantly responded to the novel about how comprehensively the author depicted child sexual abuse, violence, and trauma. The author merges generic conventions such as the Bildungsroman and fairy tale while constructing her plot and draws a significant amount of her inspiration from images. Seemingly contrasting affective impressions emanating from the images and the text converge in harmony and lead to an apt portrayal of the protagonist's psyche and the reader's ambiguous perception of his trauma. The article scrutinizes the use of photographs, paintings, and other visual material in the creative process of the novel in an ekphrastic mode both descriptively and non-descriptively, the latter to create a mood in the story rather than present a realistic depiction of the objects in question.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14702029.2023.2195235
dc.identifier.endpage243
dc.identifier.issn1470-2029
dc.identifier.issn1758-9185
dc.identifier.issue45353en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85174852100
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage229
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2023.2195235
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11776/14413
dc.identifier.volume22
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001294930800008
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Visual Art Practice
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectEkphrasis
dc.subjectHanya Yanagihara
dc.subjectA Little Life
dc.subjecttrauma
dc.subjectphotography
dc.titleVisual inspirations of A Little Life
dc.typeArticle

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