TY  - GEN
AB  - 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. She focuses on the power that can accrue to the painter from the act of representation (often at the expense of the portrait's subject), while also exploring how and why this act may threaten the portrait painter's sense of self. Analyzing the viewer's relation to the portrait, she demonstrates how portrait stories problematize the very act of seeing and with it the way subjectivity is constructed in the field of vision.
AU  - Ginsburg, Michal Peled, 
CN  - PN3352.P64
DO  - 10.1515/9780823262625
DO  - doi
ID  - 1477665
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
KW  - Characters and characteristics in literature.
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Portraits in literature.
KW  - Art & Visual Culture.
KW  - Literary Studies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
KW  - gender.
KW  - portrait.
KW  - power.
KW  - reading.
KW  - representation.
KW  - seeing.
KW  - subjectivity.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823262625
N2  - 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. She focuses on the power that can accrue to the painter from the act of representation (often at the expense of the portrait's subject), while also exploring how and why this act may threaten the portrait painter's sense of self. Analyzing the viewer's relation to the portrait, she demonstrates how portrait stories problematize the very act of seeing and with it the way subjectivity is constructed in the field of vision.
SN  - 9780823262625
T1  - Portrait Stories /
TI  - Portrait Stories /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823262625
ER  -