Shimmering in a transformed light
Subtitle: writing the still life
By: Rosemary Lloyd.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Still-life in art.; Still-life in literature.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-167) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cataloguing the world; title: Caught under glass: realism and the still life; title: Not the object but the effect it produces; title: Portrait of the author as still life; title: Looking in, looking out: objects in the mirror; title: Time and space.