{"product_id":"visuality-in-the-works-of-siri-hustvedt-9783631651155","title":"Visuality in the Works of Siri Hustvedt","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book analyzes Siri Hustvedt’s three novels \u003ci\u003eThe Blindfold, What I Loved \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of an American \u003c\/i\u003ewith a focus on visual art. Siri Hustvedt is one of the most popular American writers today and her work is predominantly concerned with art historical and psychological themes. The author of this book investigates the function of paintings and photographs in Hustvedt’s novels and conceives of verbal representations of artworks as extended metaphors. Her analysis includes verbal descriptions of Giorgione’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e, Chardin’s \u003ci\u003eGlass of Water and a Coffee Pot \u003c\/i\u003eand Goya’s \u003ci\u003eBlack Paintings \u003c\/i\u003eas well as various verbal forms of fictitious paintings and photographs. Based on this analysis the author shows how the American novel has moved from postmodernism to post-postmodernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: The Relationship between Text, Image and Picture – The Function of the Verbal Representations of Paintings and Photographs in the novel – Siri Hustvedt’s \u003ci\u003eThe Blindfold\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhat I Loved\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of an American\u003c\/i\u003e – The Development from a Postmodern to a Post-Postmodern Novel – The Intersubjective Encounter of Artwork and Observer.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044276339031,"sku":"9783631651155","price":48.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631651155.jpg?v=1750961107","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visuality-in-the-works-of-siri-hustvedt-9783631651155","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}