Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
English
Date of Award
5-2017
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Jesse Graves
Committee Members
Joshua Reid, Daniel Westover
Abstract
There are multiple ways in which language and image share one another’s aesthetic message, such as traditional ekphrasis, which uses language to describe a work of art, or notional ekphrasis, which involves literature describing something that can be considered a work of art but does not physically exist at the time the description is written. However, these two terms are not inclusive to all artworks depicting literature or literature depicting artworks. Several scenes and characters from literature have been appropriated in art and the numerous paintings of Ophelia’s death as described by Gertrude in Hamlet, specifically Millais’ Ophelia, is the focus of this project. Throughout this thesis I analyze Gertrude’s account in three sections—the landscape, the body, and the voice—and compare it to its transmutation on the canvas.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Byington, Danielle, "Transmutations of Ophelia's "Melodious Lay"" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3203. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3203
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.