Since 2010, a number of Anglo-American novels on visual art have been published and critically acclaimed. Dr Behluli interprets this wave of novels as a particular literary genre: the 'ekphrastic novel'. These texts employ a highly visual mode of writing to negotiate the relationship between people and images in an age of digital media.
Since 2010, a number of Anglo-American novels on visual art have been published and critically acclaimed. Dr Behluli interprets this wave of novels as a particular literary genre: the 'ekphrastic novel'. These texts employ a highly visual mode of writing to negotiate the relationship between people and images in an age of digital media.
Sofie Behluli is an advanced postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where she teaches and conducts research on 'Dis/affection in 19th-Century American Literature'. Prior to holding this post, she completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Dr Behluli is interested in intermediality and ekphrasis studies, affect theory, life writing, gender studies and feminist literature, and theoretical conceptions of the 'contemporary'. Her work has been published in Women: A Cultural Review (2021), Anglia: Journal of English Philology (2022), and Contemporary Literary Criticism (2023), as well as in several companions and handbooks.
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Introduction: The Ekphrastic Novel Today 1: Ascriptions of Value 2: Describing Form 3: Ambiguous Affects 4: The Scale of Anger Conclusion
