Enchanted Objects : : Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction / / Allan Hepburn.

Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While so...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2010
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Art and Objects in Contemporary Fiction
  • 2. Details: Vermeer and Specificity
  • 3. Ornament: Books in A Case of Curiosities and Salamander
  • 4. Fragility: The Case of Utz
  • 5 Looking at Ugliness: Pascali's Island and Stone Virgin
  • 6. Conclusion: On Display
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index