| Keywords: | ekphrasis, ekphrastic discourse, symbolist novel, Rilke, intermediality, poetic codes, a thing in literature, mythopoetics, comparative literature studies
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| Abstracts: | The article examines the ekphrastic discourse in the novel by R. M. Rilke «The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge» (1910), which is the only prose work of the Austrian poet.
When creating his own artistic world, the poet actively turns to the previous culture: this is the biblical philosophical and poetic tradition, medieval motives and images, and the philosophical ideas of the German and Danish philosophers, French literary and visual tradition, Russian spiritual culture and poetry. A special place in the formation of the poetic world of R.M. Rilke is occupied with the works of fine and decorative arts. Ekphrastic discourse is the basis for philosophical and poetic reflections, the starting point in the study of the problem of creativity.
Analyzing the novel «The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge», the author of the article refers to the peculiarities of the concept of «thing» in the artistic universe of the poet and traces the relationship and influence of fine art on the formation of the concept of «thing», and also reveals the function of ekphrastic discourse in the poetics of the novel. Ekphrastic discourse, an appeal to works of fine and decorative-applied art in the novel fulfill the roles of both allusions and reminiscences, and serves as the embodiment of the main theme of the work, connected with the inner searches of the protagonist. Thus, works of art are the most important sense-forming elements in the novel. In addition, referring to real-life works of art of the past centuries, the author of the novel gives the hero’s inner search a timeless, universal character.
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| The contact details of authors: | Гнездилова Елена Валерьевна – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры связей с общественностью и речевой коммуникации Российского государственного аграрного университета – Московской сельскохозяйственной академии имени К. А. Тимирязева, г. Москва, Россия, e-mail: gnezdilovaelena@mail.ru
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