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Category: Portraiture

Posted on:March 1, 2013April 29, 2021Literature Portraiture The Devil

The Devil in Gogol’s Portrait

I have been enjoying — very much — reading a variety of works about portraiture (but who has time with a newborn baby?!).  My intention has been to write a series of posts about this theme in literature. While reading, however, I wanted to pause and address a thread from a past series of mine: […]

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Posted on:March 28, 2012April 29, 2021Literature Portraiture

About Face: Cranley’s Bust in The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

One topic that interests me in literature is portraiture. I’d like to kick off a new series about portraits in literature with some snippets from an essay I wrote a few years ago about James Joyce’s Portrait. The “portrait” in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Irish, 1916) is upheld by Joyce as […]

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Posted on:March 14, 2012April 29, 2021Literature Portraiture

Balzac’s Pygmalion in The Unknown Masterpiece

Either the picture portrays the core of a man or it is not a picture. – William Carlos Williams, A Recognizable Image In the “The UnKnown Masterpiece” (French, 1831) Balzac takes up the age-old debate about where nature ends and art begins.  He does so, not surprisingly, through the most classic medium: the nude female […]

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Posted on:November 10, 2011April 29, 2021Emotion and Affect Gender and Sexuality Portraiture

Emma Courtney’s Memoirs of Stalking

Mary Hays is an eighteenth-century author obsessed with proving that she — like her romantic contemporaries — can use highfaluting language as an argument for virtue: her own virtue. Memoirs of Emma Courtney (British, 1796) is not an easy read although it is short, but the pay-offs are big. My jaw was hanging down to […]

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