ЭКФРАСИС КАК МОДЕЛЬ ИСКУССТВА В РОМАНЕ ДИНЫ РУБИНОЙ «БЕЛАЯ ГОЛУБКА КОРДОВЫ»

The article describes relevant works of modern researchers addressing the
ekphrasis.
The main types and functions of ekphrasis are analyzed, the basic
methodological approaches to literary analysis – rhetorical and semiotic – are
identified, the range of issues related to this term inter-semiotic nature is outlined.
The picturesque ekphrastic discourse in Dina Rubina’s novel “White Dove
of Cordoba” is studied and helps the author to create the original model of art.
Rubin’s work is considered to be Künstlerroman, that is, the novel about the
artist. The main task of study was to determine under the external narrative layer
the deep semantic level of the text in order to consider the creativity problem
posed in the novel as a God’s creatures as well as a craft.
The art model formed in the novel is decoded with the help of several
correspondent mythological systems. Understanding of creation of the world in
Judaism is supported by allusions on similar ancient myths subjects: the myth
about a birth of Venus and the myth about Pygmalion and Galatea.
The ekphrastic discourse in “White Dove of Cordoba” is the most important
means of art model, which reaches the romantics’ imaginations about the

artist-demiurge. Due to the gift of mystical enlightenmen he is able to create new
worlds and that is his higher purpose. The art concept in the novel is complicated
by the main hero’s efforts to forge famous masters paintings and his vision of
creative process is based on the coogonic theory when creativity is a creation of
a new world (in this the case is an art painting universe ), requires the artist to
renounce his “Ego”. This approach expands and transforms the views on art in
romanticism and modernism.