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About face : depicting the self in the written and visual arts / edited by Lindsay Eufusia, Elena Bellina and Paulo Ugolini.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self in literature.
- Self-perception in art.
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How do we represent ouselves and the cultures we live in? Is it possible to trace any boundaries between reality and self-representation? Because the self represented is the product of a process of selection and choice, in many ways to represent the self is, often simultaneously, to create the self and negate the self. What, then, becomes of the self once it is represented? Because the process of self-representation cumulates in a tangible result and given that any representation of the self...
- Contents:
- pt. I. The self before and after : intertwining identities
- pt. II. I am what you read : fashioning the self
- pt. III. Melancholy me : the self as a painful discovery
- pt. IV. Facing the mask : projecting the self on paper and canvas.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41478-X
- 9786612414787
- 1-4438-1588-8
- OCLC:
- 821179475
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