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A thousand words : portraiture, style, and queer modernism

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Status Request for on-site use Request scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	FormatText	AccessUse in library	Call numberPR478.H65 H68 2006	Item locationOff-site

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

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