Portrait Stories / Michal Peled Ginsburg.
Ginsburg, Michal Peled, author.
2014
PN3352.P64 G56 2015eb
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Title
Portrait Stories / Michal Peled Ginsburg.
Author
Ginsburg, Michal Peled, author.
ISBN
9780823262625
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262625
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (224 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823262625 doi
Call Number
PN3352.P64 G56 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.3/9353
Summary
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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Poe's "Oval Portrait"
Chapter 2. The Portrait's Two Faces: James's "The Special Type" and "The Tone of Time"
Chapter 3. The Portrait Paint er and His Doubles: Hoffmann's "Die Doppeltgänger," Gautier's "La Cafetière," and Nerval's "Portrait du diable"
Chapter 4. On Portraits, Paint ers, and Women: Balzac's La Maison du chat- qui- pelote and James's "Glasses"
Chapter 5. 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
Chapter 6. Portraits, Parents, and Children: Storm's "Aquis submersus" and Sand's "Le Château de Pictordu"
Chapter 7. Gogol, "The Portrait"
Afterword. Reading Portrait Stories
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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