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A thousand words : portraiture, style, and queer modernism

Title: A thousand words : portraiture, style, and queer modernism / Jaime Hovey.
Author: Hovey, Jaime.
Publication: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2006.

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Description

ix, 136 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"A Thousand Words argues that there is such a thing as queer modernism, and that the (mostly) literary portrait - one of the more prominent forms of experimentalism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writing - functions as one of its most important erotically dynamic aesthetic mechanisms, one modeled on visual portraiture's relationships of looking between the artists, sitters, and spectators of paintings. Jaime Hovey looks at how the dynamic structure of visual portraiture was appropriated by modernist writers - including Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Colette, among others, who used the self-conscious literary portrait."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-131) and index.

Contents

Picturing yourself: portraits, self-consciousness, and modernist style -- Talking pictures -- Caricature studies -- Forgery, or, Faking it -- Afterword: Looking back: modernism was yesterday.

ISBN

0814210147
9780814210147
0814290957
9780814290958

LCCN

2005018872
9780814210147

OCLC

ocm60839315
60839315
SCSB-14510009

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library