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Format: IX, 213 S. , 24 cm

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 082326260X , 9780823262601

Content: Introduction -- Poe's oval portrait -- The portrait's two faces: James's "The special type" and "The tone of time" -- The portrait painter and his doubles: Hoffmann's "Die Doppeltgänger", Gautier's "La cafetière", and Nerval's "Portrait du diable" -- On portraits, painters, and women: Balzac's La maison du chat-qui-pelote and James's "Glasses" -- 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 -- Portraits, parents, and children: Storm's "Aquis submersus" and Sand's "Le château de Pictordu" -- Gogol, "the portrait" -- Afterword: reading portrait stories

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index , IntroductionPoe's oval portrait -- The portrait's two faces: James's The special type and The tone of time -- The portrait painter and his doubles: Hoffmann's Die Doppeltgänger, Gautier's La cafetière, and Nerval's Portrait du diable -- On portraits, painters, and women: Balzac's La maison du chat-qui-pelote and James's Glasses -- 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 -- Portraits, parents, and children: Storm's Aquis submersus and Sand's Le château de Pictordu -- Gogol, the portrait -- Afterword: reading portrait stories.

Additional Edition: Online-Ausg. Ginsburg, Michal Peled, 1947 - Portrait stories New York : Fordham Univ. Press, 2015 ISBN 9780823262601

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Ginsburg, Michal Peled, 1947 - Portrait stories New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780823262625

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Bildnismalerei ; Bildnis ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Bildnis ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1800-1900

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Format: 1 online resource (224 p.)

ISBN: 9780823262625

Content: 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.

Note: 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 , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780823262625

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262625

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823262625