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What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Through close readings of nineteenth-century portrait stories from different literary traditions, the book analyzes the way subjectivity is produced in relation to representations, focusing on the power to represent, especially its relation to gender, and on the act of seeing.

Portrait Stories

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Hardback by Michal Peled Ginsburg

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What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Through close readings of nineteenth-century portrait stories from different literary traditions,... Read more

    Publisher: ME - Fordham University Press
    Publication Date: 12/15/2014 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780823262601, 978-0823262601
    ISBN10: 082326260X

    Number of Pages: 224

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    What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Through close readings of nineteenth-century portrait stories from different literary traditions, the book analyzes the way subjectivity is produced in relation to representations, focusing on the power to represent, especially its relation to gender, and on the act of seeing.

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