INTERMEDIALITY IN PU SONGLING’S PROSE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SHORT STORY PAINTED WALL

Abstract

The article presents a new approach to the analysis of the novel Painted Wall by Pu Songling (蒲松齡, 1640–1715) based on the method of intermedial analysis. The novel considered in the article, which is far from the last place in the work of the classic, has not been considered before in the aspect of intermedia. In this regard, the main purpose of the article is to analyze the presence of a non-verbal pictorial “language” in a story, to form an idea of an intermedial-ekphrastic representation as a specific artistic technique used by Pu Songling. On the basis of the material of the story, a particular case of the writer using an ecphrastic description of a painted wall, which is based on the principle of highlighting the motive of mystical “revival”, is considered. In the course of the study, it was possible to find out that the manner of the ecphrastic description of the painting presented in the novel is built precisely in the aspect of intermedia, that is, from the point of view of the representation of the non-verbal artistic “language” in verbal discourse.