셰익스피어의 도전: 『비너스와 아도니스』에 나타난 언어의 시각화
Shakespeare’s Challenge: the visualization of language in Venus and Adonis
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This paper explores the visualization of language, vivid verbal descriptions in Shakespeare’s narrative poetry Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare's first printed work, and non-dramatic verse, Venus and Adonis is concerned with seeing and looking such as Venus’s pleasure in seeing Adonis, Adonis’s horse seeing the attractive jennet, Venus seeing Adonis’ dead body, and so on. Shakespeare employs a kind of trick of stage-setting to create a pictorial mode of writing and encourages his readers to see many events represented by his vivid language. For this narrative poem, not dramatic work, readers need imagination and their mind eyes to see the events and action related to Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare also explores various descriptions of pictorial artwork and asks readers to imagine pieces of visual art like a remarkable visual representation of a horse, and Zeuxis’s painted grapes. He intends to demonstrate that literal art can be as persuasive and convincing as visual art through his lifelike verbal representation. Finally, Venus and Adonis contains a complex mixture of various rhetorical figures and tropes, especially, Shakespeare helps us see things in the mind’s eyes using vivid figurative languages. Among rhetoric figures, metaphor is an effective way of achieving enargeia at the heart of ekphrasis, and becomes part of the visually imagined scene. Yet here, metaphor does not necessarily function to allow us to see original objects it describes and Shakespeare emphasizes the ambiguity of metaphor both to make us see and make us not see. It seems that Shakespeare succeeds in capturing readers’ eyes with the splendid rhetoric language. Venus and Adonis, which can be considered Shakespeare’s bold and experimental work, is not a substitute for the theatre of visual immediacy but the start of Shakespeare’s distinctive interest in the visualization of language.
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This paper explores the visualization of language, vivid verbal descriptions in Shakespeare’s narrative poetry Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare's first printed work, and non-dramatic verse, Venus and Adonis is concerned with seeing and looking such as Venus’s pleasure in seeing Adonis, Adonis’s horse seeing the attractive jennet, Venus seeing Adonis’ dead body, and so on. Shakespeare employs a kind of trick of stage-setting to create a pictorial mode of writing and encourages his readers to see many events represented by his vivid language. For this narrative poem, not dramatic work, readers need imagination and their mind eyes to see the events and action related to Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare also explores various descriptions of pictorial artwork and asks readers to imagine pieces of visual art like a remarkable visual representation of a horse, and Zeuxis’s painted grapes. He intends to demonstrate that literal art can be as persuasive and convincing as visual art through his lifelike verbal representation. Finally, Venus and Adonis contains a complex mixture of various rhetorical figures and tropes, especially, Shakespeare helps us see things in the mind’s eyes using vivid figurative languages. Among rhetoric figures, metaphor is an effective way of achieving enargeia at the heart of ekphrasis, and becomes part of the visually imagined scene. Yet here, metaphor does not necessarily function to allow us to see original objects it describes and Shakespeare emphasizes the ambiguity of metaphor both to make us see and make us not see. It seems that Shakespeare succeeds in capturing readers’ eyes with the splendid rhetoric language. Venus and Adonis, which can be considered Shakespeare’s bold and experimental work, is not a substitute for the theatre of visual immediacy but the start of Shakespeare’s distinctive interest in the visualization of language.
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