Portrait stories

by Ginsburg, Michal Peled

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Title Statements

Full title :Portrait stories / Michal Peled Ginsburg.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 213 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780823262601, 082326260X
oclc:ocn894128381
LC Classification:PN3352.P64
Dewey Decimal:809.3/9353

Introduction -- Poe's oval portrait -- The portrait's two faces: James's "The special type" and "The tone of time" -- The portrait painter and his doubles: Hoffmann's "Die Doppeltgänger", Gautier's "La cafetière", and Nerval's "Portrait du diable" -- On portraits, painters, and women: Balzac's La maison du chat-qui-pelote and James's "Glasses" -- Portraits of the male body: Kleist's "Der Findling", Hardy's "Barbara of the house of Grebe", and Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray -- Portraits, parents, and children: Storm's "Aquis submersus" and Sand's "Le château de Pictordu" -- Gogol, "the portrait" -- Afterword: reading portrait stories.

Subjects

17.90 literature in relation with other… 20.21 iconographic themes Bildnis Bildnismalerei Characters and characteristics in liter… Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction Fiction -- History and criticism. -- 19… Kurzgeschichte Novelle Portraits dans la littérature Portraits in literature Roman -- Histoire et critique. -- 19e s…