Portraits In Fiction
Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers have been fascinated by portraits as icons, as motifs, as images of character and evocations of past time. A. S. Byatt delves into the complex relations between portraits and characters, and between portraits and novels as whole works of art. Her authors range from Henry James to Iris Murdoch, her artists from Holbein to Botticelli, Manet to the present day. She looks at the way writers use portraits to conjure up the past, as in Ford Madox Ford's The Fifth Queen and Virginia Woolf's Orlan…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4735-2051-6
- EAN: 9781473520516
- Produktnummer: 29021653
- Verlag: Random House
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 20'657 KB
- Abbildungen: 16
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