De lo sublime a lo abstracto: écfrasis de paisajes en Wide sargasso sea de Jean Rhys

Abstract

In this paper we will study the novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys dedicating special attention to landscape’s ekphrasis, namely considering the landscape’s descriptions as a textual representation of a visual representation (Mitchell, 1994: 2); Since, even if it’s a natural place, always implies a man’s look and, therefore, a culture which interfere on that look. In our paper, we will treat the way in which the Caribbean landscape is represented in Rhys’s novel, opposed to the archetypal English landscape. We propose to describe the function of landscape’s ekphrasis in this novel and link this process with the pictorial landscape genre and with the revisions and reinterpretations that this one has suffered since the Impressionism in art’s history.