"My Own Portrait in Writing" : self-fashioning in the letters of Vincent van Gogh

"My Own Portrait in Writing" self-fashioning in the letters of Vincent van Gogh

Art historians, biographers, and other researchers have long drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence—more than eight hundred letters—for insights into both his personal struggles and his art. But the letters, while often admired for their literary quality, have rarely been approached as litera...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grant, Patrick, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edmonton, Alberta : Athabasca University Press 2015
2015.
Series:Cultural dialectics.
Subjects:
Gogh, Vincent van, > 1853-1890 > Criticism and interpretation.
Gogh, Vincent van, > 1853-1890 > Correspondence.
Letters in literature.
letter-sketches
Terry Eagleton
modern literary theory
modern literary studies
Mikahil Bakhtin
Vincent van Gogh
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009800335906719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Dialogical Structure of Self-Fashioning
  • 1 The Painterly Writer
  • 2 Binaries, Contradictions, and “Arguments on Both Sides”-- 3 Reading Van Gogh';s Letter-Sketches
  • 4 Imagination and the Limits of Self-Fashioning
  • Conclusion: Envoi.

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