LEADER 04596nam 2200685 450 001 9910831496303321 005 20240229170923.0 010 $a1-77199-060-0 010 $a1-77199-059-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000615723 035 $a(EBL)3431545 035 $a(OCoLC)921888427 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001519734 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12496133 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001519734 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11522486 035 $a(PQKB)11593640 035 $a(CEL)449837 035 $a(OCoLC)921534156 035 $a(CaBNVSL)kck00235954 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3431545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4839979 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/54172 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/q8wrsz 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000615723 100 $a20170502h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn#---uu|u| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a"My Own Portrait in Writing" $eself-fashioning in the letters of Vincent van Gogh /$fPatrick Grant 210 $cAthabasca University Press$d2015 210 1$aEdmonton, Alberta :$cAU Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (220 pages) $cdigital file(s) 225 1 $aCultural Dialectics 311 08$aPrint version: 9781771990455 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aArt 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 literature. In this volume, Patrick Grant sets out to explore the question, ?By what criteria do we judge Van Gogh?s letters to be, specifically, literary?? Drawing, especially, on Mikhail Bakhtin?s conceptualization of self-awareness as an ongoing dialogue between ?self? and ?other,? Grant examines the ways in which Van Gogh?s letters raise, from within themselves, questions and issues to which they also respond. Their literary quality, he argues, derives in part from this ?double-voiced discourse??from the power of the letters to thematize, through their own internal dialogues, the very structure of self-fashioning itself. Far from merely reproducing the narrative of the artist?s personal progress, ?the letters enable readers to recognize how necessary yet open-ended, constrained yet liberating, confined yet unpredictable, are the means by which people seek to shape a place for themselves in the world.?This volume builds on Grant?s earlier analysis of Van Gogh?s correspondence, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: A Critical Study (AU Press, 2014), a study in which he approached the letters from a literary critical standpoint, delving into key patterns of metaphors and concepts. In the present volume, he provides instead a literary theoretical analysis of the letters, one that draws them more fully into the domain of modern literary studies. In his deft and keenly perceptive reading, Grant deconstructs the binaries that surface in both Van Gogh?s writing and painting, discusses the narrative dimensions of the letter-sketches and the recurring themes of fantasy, belief, and self-surrender, and draws attention to Van Gogh?s own understanding of the permeable boundary between words and visual art. Viewing the letters as an integrated body of discourse, ?My Own Portrait in Writing? offers a theoretically informed interpretation of Van Gogh?s literary achievement that is, quite literally, without precedent. 410 0$aCultural dialectics. 606 $aLetters in literature 610 $aletter-sketches 610 $aTerry Eagleton 610 $amodern literary theory 610 $amodern literary studies 610 $aMikahil Bakhtin 610 $aVincent van Gogh 615 0$aLetters in literature. 676 $a759.9492 700 $aGrant$b Patrick$0561455 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831496303321 996 $a"My Own Portrait in Writing"$94030445 997 $aUNINA