Portrait Stories

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What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer are produced in relation to representations shaped by particular interests and power relations, ofte…

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Full title :Portrait Stories.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
Place of Publication:Bronx
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780823262632, 0823262634, 9780823262625, 0823262626
DOI:10.1515/9780823262625
oclc:ocn923764350
LC Classification:PN3352.P64.G56 2015eb
Dewey Decimal:809.3/9353

Front -- Contents -- Poeâ€?s â€œOval Portraitâ€? -- The Portraitâ€?s Two Faces: Jamesâ€?s â€œThe Special Typeâ€? and â€œThe Tone of Timeâ€? -- The Portrait Paint er and His Doubles: Hoffmannâ€?s â€œDie DoppeltgÃ?nger, â€? Gautierâ€?s â€œLa CafetiÃ?re, â€? and Nervalâ€?s â€œPortrait du diableâ€? -- On Portraits, Painters, and Women: Balzacâ€?s -- Portraits of the Male Body: Kleistâ€?s â€œDer Findling, â€? Hardyâ€?s â€œBarbara of the House of Grebe, â€? and Wildeâ€?s -- Portraits, Parents, and Children: Stormâ€?s â€œAquis submersusâ€? and Sandâ€?s â€œLe ChÃØteau de Pictorduâ€?

Gogol, â€œThe Portraitâ€?Reading Portrait Stories -- Index

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Bildnis Bildnismalerei Characters and characteristics in liter… Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction Fiction -- History and criticism. -- 19… Kurzgeschichte LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General Novelle Portraits dans la littérature Portraits in literature Roman -- Histoire et critique. -- 19e s…