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

by Françoise Meltzer

Book Overview

How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Fran oise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait--the painted portrait, framed--appears 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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226519724
• ISBN13: 9780226519722
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"