LEADER 03848nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910972264403321 005 20251117005459.0 010 $a9786612710742 010 $a9781282710740 010 $a1282710745 010 $a9780226519654 010 $a0226519651 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226519654 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034632 035 $a(EBL)570553 035 $a(OCoLC)658193428 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000427584 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11319467 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427584 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413402 035 $a(PQKB)10264128 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC570553 035 $a(DE-B1597)535697 035 $a(OCoLC)1135611208 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226519654 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL570553 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408912 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL271074 035 $a(Perlego)1851180 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034632 100 $a19871028d1987 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSalome and the dance of writing $eportraits of mimesis in literature /$fFrancoise Meltzer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicao $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1987 215 $a1 online resource (239 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780226519722 311 0 $a0226519724 311 0 $a9780226519715 311 0 $a0226519716 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Salome and the Dance of Writing --$t2. The Spearpoint of Troilus --$t3. The Golden Calf and the Golden Ass --$t4. Still Life --$t5. Sleight of Hand --$tEchoes --$tIndex 330 $aHow does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait-the painted portrait, framed-appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual portrait becomes a telling measure of literature's views on itself, on the politics of representation, and on the power of writing. Meltzer's readings of textual portraits-in the Gospel writers and Huysmans, Virgil and Stendhal, the Old Testament and Apuleius, Hawthorne and Poe, Kafka and Rousseau, Walter Scott and Mme de Lafayette-reveal an interplay of control and subversion: writing attempts to veil the visual and to erase the sensual in favor of "meaning," while portraiture, with its claims to bringing the natural object to "life," resists and eludes such control. Meltzer shows how this tension is indicative of a politics of repression and subversion intrinsic to the very act of representation. Throughout, she raises and illuminates fascinating issues: about the relation of flattery to caricature, the nature of the uncanny, the relation of representation to memory and history, the narcissistic character of representation, and the interdependency of representation and power. Writing, thinking, speaking, dreaming, acting-the extent to which these are all controlled by representation must, Meltzer concludes, become "consciously unconscious." In the textual portrait, she locates the moment when this essential process is both revealed and repressed. 606 $aMimesis in literature 606 $aPortraits in literature 615 0$aMimesis in literature. 615 0$aPortraits in literature. 676 $a809.93355 676 $a809/.93355 700 $aMeltzer$b Franc?oise$0251705 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972264403321 996 $aSalome and the dance of writing$91333923 997 $aUNINA