De twee kanten van een kunstwerk. Over ‘Landschap met vogels’ van Stefan Hertmans

Alyssa Verhees

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Traditionally, scholars of visual artworks in novels have focused on theories on intermediality and ekphrasis, which are used to look at the verbal representation and meaning of the artwork embedded. I want to go beyond this rather traditional research and take into account the ‘thingly’ aspects of artworks in stories as well: what is the role of the artwork-as-object in the narrative? what kind of relationship do the characters have with it? and how is that all transmitted by the narrator? In what follows, I use thing theory to look at ‘Landschap met vogels’ by Stefan Hertmans, in which the artwork functions both as ‘picture’ and as object. I show that Hertmans’s text, by using mirroring and copying techniques, takes on the same double role as the artwork it narrates about.



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