Ekphrasis Makes Still Artifacts Speak: Taking “If National Treasure Can Talk” as Example

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.023How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ekphrasis, If National Treasure Can Talk, Power of Language, Narrative Impulse, Imagination

Abstract

Answering the call of Chinese culture policy of “Telling Chinese stories well”, CCTV documentary “If a National Treasure Can Talk” has successfully produced a model of telling stories well. This study holds that, it is the use of “Ekphrasis”, an ancient term of “descriptive discourse that can bring things to life”, that enables national treasure to have the function of “talk”. With close reading method, this study analysed its mechanism of changing visual art into verbal art in this CCTV Ekphrastic commentary, that is, power of language, narrative impulse and imagination as a bridge of “Ekphrasis”, to give enlightenment of “telling stories well” and “making cultural relics alive” in China and other culture.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fen Liu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - Ekphrasis Makes Still Artifacts Speak: Taking “If National Treasure Can Talk” as Example
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 116
EP  - 119
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.023
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.023
ID  - Liu2021
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