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![]() ![]() It renders the artwork described more visible, touchable, real. Moreover, the picture frame’s material presence facilitates both representation and perception in the nineteenth-century realist text. It argues that the physical border of the picture frame operates as a demarcating device in the ekphrastic text, as a door-like liminal space that outlines and maintains the boundaries of representation. This article examines the function of the frame-as-object in the context of ekphrasis and nineteenth-century realist narrative. Little attention has been paid to the material, physical aspect of the artwork and especially the solid, touchable picture frame. Theories of ekphrasis-the literary description of an artwork-have traditionally addressed the figurative contest between verbal representation (text) and visual representation (image) that structures the trope. As a consequence, in this study, the characteristics of these female protagonists will be discussed in the 19 th century Russia, France and Ottoman Turkey, in a comparative manner, so as to identify the impact of the social pressure upon these female characters, who commit suicide at the end of these novels and to recognize the destructive nature of the patriarchal norms upon females in different environments. In addition, in these realistic works, the female protagonists are involved in adultery, which causes them to experience psychological problems together with the social ones. In this sense, in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and UaklÕgil's Ak-Õ Memnu (Forbidden Love), the focus is on the conflicts not only between women and men but also between women and social norms restricting the lives of females, metaphorically confining them and preventing them from proving their identities. ![]() Therefore, the social conditions and the cultural norms play a very important role in the depiction of female characters in literature. Women are sometimes portrayed as obedient, sometimes as rebellious characters in literary works. In various literary works, different women with different characteristics come into view, which shows that gender issue and the conflict between men and women have been questioned by authors, who aimed at reflecting the gender problem by highlighting the position of females in society. ![]()
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