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Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life
Rosemary Lloyd
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Description for Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 18. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801442964
SKU
V9780801442964
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Ref
99-19
About Rosemary Lloyd
Rosemary Lloyd is Rudy Professor of French and Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Indiana University-Bloomington. She is the author, editor, and translator of several books, including Mallarmé: The Poet and His Circle, Baudelaire's World, Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life, and Closer and Closer Apart: Jealousy in Literature, all ... Read more
Reviews for Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life
"Literary still lives—worlds writ small that somehow speak for themselves—are the subject of this innovative book, which fittingly becomes a kind of critical still life in turn, gracious, witty, and luminous. In it are assembled and displayed for our delectation an anthological profusion of 'objects' both painterly and writerly, of varied provenance and use. And it celebrates both things and ... Read more