Portrait Stories / / Michal Peled Ginsburg.
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, Wil...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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