Portrait stories
What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? 'Portrait Stories' argues that it is the ways they articulate the relation between subjectivity and representation. While in pre-19th century stories the portrait is presented as an unambiguous token of its subject's already established identity, the stories discussed in this book show subjectivity to be inseparable from representation. At the same time, portraiture highlights the way representation is inflected by particular intere…
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- Full title :Portrait stories / Michal Peled Ginsburg.
Summary
What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? 'Portrait Stories' argues that it is the ways they articulate the relation between subjectivity and representation. While in pre-19th century stories the portrait is presented as an unambiguous token of its subject's already established identity, the stories discussed in this book show subjectivity to be inseparable from representation. At the same time, portraiture highlights the way representation is inflected by particular interests and power relations, often determined by gender as well as class.
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- 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:1 online resource (223 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780823262625, 0823262626, 9780823262632, 0823262634, 1322400601, 9781322400600, 082326260X, 9780823262601, 9780823266517, 0823266516
- oclc:ocn896852955
- LC Classification:PN3352.P64
- Dewey Decimal:809.3/9353
Table of Contents
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.
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