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Although much has been written lately on the links between painting and writing, little or no attention has been paid to those moments in literature when the narrative stops to allow for the description of those objects we associate with still life...

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"Literary still lives—worlds writ small that somehow speak for themselves—are the subject of this innovative book, which fittingly becomes a kind of critical still life in turn, gracious, witty, and luminous. In it are assembled and displayed for our delectation an anthological profusion of 'objects' both painterly and writerly, of varied provenance and use. And it celebrates both things and words, the two indispensable elements that between them procure us the strangely seductive pleasures of literary description."—Ross Chambers, author of Loiterature

Shimmering in a Transformed Light Writing the

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/01/2005
      ISBN13: 9780801442964, 978-0801442964
      ISBN10: 0801442966
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      Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Although much has been written lately on the links between painting and writing, little or no attention has been paid to those moments in literature when the narrative stops to allow for the description of those objects we associate with still life...

      Trade Review
      "Literary still lives—worlds writ small that somehow speak for themselves—are the subject of this innovative book, which fittingly becomes a kind of critical still life in turn, gracious, witty, and luminous. In it are assembled and displayed for our delectation an anthological profusion of 'objects' both painterly and writerly, of varied provenance and use. And it celebrates both things and words, the two indispensable elements that between them procure us the strangely seductive pleasures of literary description."—Ross Chambers, author of Loiterature

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