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Picture theory / Nicole Brossard ; translated from the French by Barbara Godard.
- Title
- Picture theory / Nicole Brossard ; translated from the French by Barbara Godard.
- Author
- Brossard, Nicole
- Publication
- Montreal : Guernica, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ3919.2.B75 P5313 1991 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 186 p.; 19 cm.
- Summary
- "A novel first published in French in 1982, 'Picture Theory' demonstrates Nicole Brossard's fiction théorique and her preoccupation with the difficulty of writing and reading woman. The title (taken from Wittgenstein) implies her reference to the hologram as a new pictorial model for woman; like the hologram which is intended to be read from an infinite number of changing conditions, Brossard's text abstracts the image of the feminine so that it can be read from all angles. Centred on four women, this novel of lesbian love moves from Curaçao to Montreal, from New York to Paris. Essentially, Picture Theory poses the question of what is a novel."--back cover.
- Series Statement
- Prose series ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Picture theory. English
- Prose series ; v. 7.
- Alternative Title
- Picture theory.
- Subject
- Lesbians > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The ordinary -- Perspective -- Emotion -- Thought -- Screen skin -- Screen skin too -- Screen skin utopia -- Hologram.
- ISBN
- 0920717225 :
- 09207172205 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^^92243379^
- OCLC
- 28377992
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library