NO «LABIRINTO», LIBERDADE: ESTUDO SOBRE A RELAÇÃO ENTRE EKPHRASIS E HIPERTEXTO EM VASCO GRAÇA MOURA

Abstract

This study is an attempt to articulate the concepts of imagetext and ekphrasis (Mitchell, 1994) with the idea of hypertext (Bolter, 2001). In this essay, ekphrasis is conceived not only as a visual description of an artistic object, but rather as a pictorial movement – mainly linguistic – which has consequences for the development of reading, literature, and literacy (cf. Mitchell, 1994: 193). According to Jay David Bolter, hypertext is a textual space conceived as a result of an act of remediation of print which includes an electronic device – a link – equivalent to another typographical mechanism: the footnote in a book, used for hundreds of years (Bolter, 2001: 27). Considering the book Em demanda de Moura / Giraldomachias (Moura e Castello-Lopes, 2000) as the main (but not the exclusive) object of this analysis, in the present essay I try to investigate how verbal and visual language connect with each other and how their interplay is both ekphrastic and hypertextual, since all poems of this book are constructed as multi-sequential, non-linear, spatialized, verbal and visual artifacts.