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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
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 cafetiere, 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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