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Book Description hardcover. Condition: new. 1. About the Author Franoise Meltzer is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago where she is also professor at the Divinity School and in the College Meltzer is the author of five books most recently of Seeing Double Baudelaires Modernity and a coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry Product Description How does literature imagine its own powers of representation Franoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portraitthe painted portrait framedappears 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 literatures views on itself on the politics of representation and on the power of writing Meltzersreadings of textual portraitsin the Gospel writers and HuysmansVirgil and Stendhal the Old Testament and Apuleius Hawthorne and Poe Kafka and Rousseau Walter Scott and Mme de Lafayettereveal 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 ofrepresentation to memory and history the narcissistic character of representation and the interdependency of representation and power Writing thinking speaking dreaming actingthe extent to which these are all controlled by representation must Meltzer concludes become consciously unconscious In the textualportrait she locates the moment when this essential process is both revealed and repressed From Library Journal Meltzers engrossing study of the critical and philosophical aporia posed by the literary presentation of visual representation utilizes Salomes deadly dance as metaphoric of representations indescribableyet imaginablepower Portraiture has concerned writers from Plato through Kant to Ricouer and Derrida and storytellers from Apuleius to Flaubert and Stendahl Meltzer considers the impact of Salomes dance not only in classical and French literature in which she is a specialist but in biblical and Freudian texts as well This challenging excursion through a theory of literary mimesis is a consummate work of scholarship that will reward specialists in literature and philosophy as well as the informed general readers Francisca Goldsmith Golden Gate Univ Lib San FranciscoCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information Inc. Seller Inventory # DADAX0226519716
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