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Le portrait peut être désigné comme "l'image absolue" (J-C Bailly). C'est-à-dire l'image où se rassemblent tous les enjeux de la mimesis, de la représentation, de la figuration, de la "vérité en peinture" (Cézanne/Derrida). L'histoire du portrait jusqu'à nous met en scène, si on…
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 …
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, Balza…
"He is a Philosopher" : Individual versus Collective Identity -- Decent Exposure : Bosoms, Smiles and Maternal Delight in Female Portraits -- Between Innocence and Disillusion : Representations of Children and Childhood -- Transitional Identities : Family Structure, the Social O…
