A thousand words : portraiture, style, and queer modernism /
"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 mech...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
©2006.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 136 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-131) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814272534 0814272533 |