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Sightings : mirrors in texts, texts in mirrors / Joyce O. Lowrie.

Title
Sightings : mirrors in texts, texts in mirrors / Joyce O. Lowrie.
Author
Lowrie, Joyce O.
Publication
Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

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Description
xi, 228 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; vol. 54
Uniform Title
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 54.
Subject
  • Chiasmus
  • French literature > History and criticism
  • French language > Rhetoric
  • French language > Style
  • Symmetry in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • In English ; with some text in French.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Veluti in speculum (as in a looking glass) -- The mirror in the middle : Mme de Thémines's letter in Lafayette's La princesse de Clèves -- The prévan cycle as pre-text in Laclos's Les liaisons dangereuses -- The frame and the framed : mirroring texts in Balzac's Facino cane -- Barbey d'Aurevilly's Une page d'histoire : incest as mirror image -- Reversals and disappearrance in Georges Rodenbach's L'ami des miroirs and Bruges-la-morte -- Man mirrors toad, or vice-versa : decadent narcissism in Jean Lorrain's Oeuvre -- The wheel of fortune as mirror : André Pieyre de Mandiargue's La motocyclette -- Kaleidoscopic reflections in guise of a conclusion : Close, Maupassant, Douglas and Borges.
ISBN
  • 9789042024953 (pbk.)
  • 904202495X (pbk.)
OCLC
316063170
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library