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Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature

Françoise Meltzer

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Description:How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Fran oise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portraitOCothe painted portrait, framedOCoappears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual portrait becomes a telling measure of literature's views on itself, on the politics of representation, and on the power of writing. Meltzer'sareadings of textual portraitsOCoin the Gospel writers and Huysmans, aVirgil and Stendhal, the Old Testament and Apuleius, Hawthorne and Poe, Kafka and Rousseau, Walter Scott and Mme de LafayetteOCoreveal an interplay of control and subversion: writing attempts to veil the visual and to erase the sensual in favor of meaning, while portraiture, with its claims to bringing the natural object to life, resists and eludes such control. Meltzer shows how this tension is indicative of a politics of repression and subversion intrinsic to the very act of representation. Throughout, she raises and illuminates fascinating issues: about the relation of flattery to caricature, the nature of the uncanny, the relation ofarepresentation to memory and history, the narcissistic character of representation, and the interdependency of representation and power. Writing, thinking, speaking, dreaming, actingOCothe extent to which these are all controlled by representation must, Meltzer concludes, become consciously unconscious. In the textualaportrait, she locates the moment when this essential process is both revealed and repressed. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature. To get started finding Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 239

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226519651

Description: How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Fran oise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portraitOCothe painted portrait, framedOCoappears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual portrait becomes a telling measure of literature's views on itself, on the politics of representation, and on the power of writing. Meltzer'sareadings of textual portraitsOCoin the Gospel writers and Huysmans, aVirgil and Stendhal, the Old Testament and Apuleius, Hawthorne and Poe, Kafka and Rousseau, Walter Scott and Mme de LafayetteOCoreveal an interplay of control and subversion: writing attempts to veil the visual and to erase the sensual in favor of meaning, while portraiture, with its claims to bringing the natural object to life, resists and eludes such control. Meltzer shows how this tension is indicative of a politics of repression and subversion intrinsic to the very act of representation. Throughout, she raises and illuminates fascinating issues: about the relation of flattery to caricature, the nature of the uncanny, the relation ofarepresentation to memory and history, the narcissistic character of representation, and the interdependency of representation and power. Writing, thinking, speaking, dreaming, actingOCothe extent to which these are all controlled by representation must, Meltzer concludes, become consciously unconscious. In the textualaportrait, she locates the moment when this essential process is both revealed and repressed. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature. To get started finding Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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