Title: Shimmering in a transformed light : writing the still life /
Authors: Lloyd, Rosemary.
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Literature, Modern History and criticism; Literature, Modern History and criticism; Still-life in art.; Still-life in literature.
Abstract: "Although much has been written lately on the links between painting and writing, little or no attention has been paid to those moments in literature when the narrative stops to allow for the description of those objects we associate with still life. Rosemary Lloyd's book shows how fascinating this overlooked area is; how rich in suggestions of class, race, and gender; how much it indicates about human pleasures and about the experience of space and time." "Lloyd focuses on the last two centuries, particularly at points marked by the irruption of images of contingency and rapid change into the fields of art."--Jacket.
Contents: Cataloguing the world -- Caught under glass: realism and the still life -- Not the object but the effect it produces -- Portrait of the author as still life -- Looking in, looking out: objects in the mirror -- Time and space.