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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 alrea...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.