Abstract
The article demonstrates an attempt to look at the image of a portrait and a landscape in literature from the viewpoint of 3 concepts, which describe this phenomenon: a ekphrasis, a motive and a detail. A sight at the same phenomenon trough 3 different concepts on the one hand reveals various function of a picturesque portrait and landscape, and on the other hand helps to define the sphere of theoretical description at each of these 3 terms. The image of a picturesque portrait and the image of a picturesque landscape in literature seem to be equivalent phenomena. The approach to the research of these phenomena from different positions reveals that both phenomena are described by the term ekphrasis, but a picturesque portrait can be a motive and a detail (when a picturesque work is not described, and simply refers to) and a picturesque landscape can not be a motive of a work of art and can seldom be a detail. The most universal definition in modern study of literature is ekphrasis. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-9-71
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