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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 alrea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ginsburg, Michal Peled, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Portraits in literature.
Fiction.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Roman > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Portraits dans la litterature.
Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9780823262625

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