A THOUSAND WORDS
Subtitle: PORTRAITURE, STYLE, AND QUEER MODERNISM
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: April 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Audio CD
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780814290958
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Gay & Lesbian; Gay & Lesbian; Literary Criticism; Abridged Audio - Literature/Classics; 20th century; Art and literature; English literature; English-speaking countries; History; History and criticism; Homosexuality and literature
Description: "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.