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9781409470397 | Routledge, June 29, 2016, cover price $149.95
Product Description: 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, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer are produced in relation to representations shaped by particular interests and power relations, often determined by gender as well as by class...read more
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9780823262601 | Fordham Univ Pr, December 15, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling?
Product Description: In this ambitious cross-disciplinary study, Elizabeth A. Fay examines the Romantic era in Britain as a transitional period leading to the modernist focus on identity formation and legibility. Inventing the term âportraitive modeâ to describe a diversity of cultural and material expressions of identity, such as visual and verbal portraits, miniatures, poetry, caricatures, and biographical dictionaries, she examines a widespread cultural shift toward a world of faces and figures that foreshadows todayâs increasingly common self-reflections and depictions...read more
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9781584657781 | Univ of New Hampshire, January 12, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this ambitious cross-disciplinary study, Elizabeth A.
Product Description: Throughout the long course of literature, islands have accumulated uncanny connotations of death, together with peculiarities of linguistic definition and expression. Since the age of "discovery", after the Caribbean Islands, America itself, and later the archipelagos and atolls in the Pacific became known to travellers and conquistadores, islands have been sought, searched, explored and physically possessed as women; cultural recognition takes the form of sexual and physical possession (Venus was born from the sea, and is identified with an island)...read more
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9781586030551 | Ios Pr Inc, December 1, 2000, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: Throughout the long course of literature, islands have accumulated uncanny connotations of death, together with peculiarities of linguistic definition and expression.
Product Description: How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portraitâthe painted portrait, framedâappears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual portrait becomes a telling measure of literature's views on itself, on the politics of representation, and on the power of writing...read more
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9780226519715 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: How does literature imagine its own powers of representation?
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9780226519722 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 31, 1989), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: How does literature imagine its own powers of representation?
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