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Author:

Ginsburg, Michal Peled, 1947-

Title:

Portrait stories / Michal Peled Ginsburg.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

ix, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Portraits in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

082326260X
9780823262601

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894128381

LCCN:

2014029446

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)