EKPHRASIS IN THE NOVEL "THE RAFFAEL AFFAIR" BY IAIN PEARS

The article explores the concept of ekphrasis as a literary device that creates an interdisciplinary link between visual and verbal modes in art. Particular attention is paid to the definition of the term by J. Heffernan and two classifications of ekphrasis offered by scholars L. Louvel (narrativizing, maieutic, hermeneutic, subversive, elegiac, affective) and T. Luneva (referential-descriptive, mediational-descriptive, explanatory-interpretive, interpretive-interpretive). The analysis of different types of ekphrasis is carried out within the framework of artistic discourse on the example of a described painting from the detective novel The Raffael Affair by the British writer Iain Pears. The importance and relevance of the research lies in the possibility of studying the interaction of different types of ekphrasis in a literary text, which opens up new perspectives for analysing the interdisciplinary relations between literature and the visual arts.