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Published: 01 December 2022
Figure 1. Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Portrait of Georges Rodenbach (1895). Photo: Hervé Lewandowski. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. More
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Published: 01 June 2024
Figure 1. Dimitri Ismailovitch, Persian Princess (Portrait of Maria Margarida Soutello) (1941). Oil on canvas, 94 × 72 cm. Mendes Cavalcanti collection, Rio de Janeiro. Photograph by Mariza Lima. More
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Published: 01 June 2024
Figure 6. Portrait of Zé Espinguela, Sodade do Cordão (detail). More
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Published: 01 June 2024
Figure 7. Self-portrait of Dimitri Ismailovitch, Sodade do Cordão (detail). More
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 122–143.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Michal Peled Ginsburg This essay explores the function of the portrait in two texts, Balzac's La Maison du chat-qui-pelote and James's “Glasses.” I argue that in both texts the portrait plays a crucial role and that taking the portrait into account allows us to see differently the social dramas...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
... into the future even as they revise the past. The visual archive of the plantation, then, as unvarying and stable as it may appear (Tara, say, or the Lyceum), is really a composite consisting of all the photographs and portraits of plantations produced and circulated for the past two centuries or so...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 166–183.
Published: 01 June 2021
... livelihoods that trouble narrow definitions of work and its spatial, temporal, and corporeal limits. Through its montage and unusual soundscape, Santos Port presents laboring bodies in excess of their labor in an elusive portrait of both a strike and of work-life relationships. Unwaged, overlooked forms...
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 5. Sophie running from Héloïse to Marianne. Screen capture from Céline Sciamma’s 2019 film Portrait of a Lady on Fire . More
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 164–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
... “apparatus of com- missioned portraiture,” that kind of representation with which the book is hence- forth mainly concerned, and with which Rembrandt himself is chiefly identified. Berger borrows from film theory in order to define the system of Foucaldian dispositifs that govern early modern portrait...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 243–261.
Published: 01 June 2004
... records combined mug shots, a spoken portrait (portrait parlé ), and a record of peculiar characteristics (such as tattoos and accents). By the end of the nine- teenth century, this prototype of the modern police file had been firmly estab- lished throughout Europe.4 Whereas a criminal...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 237–254.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Figure 5. Sophie running from Héloïse to Marianne. Screen capture from Céline Sciamma’s 2019 film Portrait of a Lady on Fire . ...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Figure 1. Dimitri Ismailovitch, Persian Princess (Portrait of Maria Margarida Soutello) (1941). Oil on canvas, 94 × 72 cm. Mendes Cavalcanti collection, Rio de Janeiro. Photograph by Mariza Lima. ...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 291–320.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Parapluie fantastique, ou dix femmes sous une ombrelle (Ten Ladies in One Umbrella) . Dir. Georges Méliès. New York/Paris: Star Films, 1903 . Poe, Edgar Allen. “The Oval Portrait.” Poetry and Tales . New York: Library of America, 1984 . 481 -84. Questerber, Marie-Christine. “Méliès et la...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 267–270.
Published: 01 September 2006
...SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN University of Oregon 2006 Freud, Sigmund. “Mourning and Melancholia.” The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . Ed. James Strachey. Vol. 14 . London: Hogarth Press, 1957 . 237 -58. 24 vols. James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 169–191.
Published: 01 June 2012
... by an untrained taste, draws on them the ridicule of the colder and more correct white race. (160–61) Hughes contests this narrative description with a portrait by E.W. Kemble in which Tom looks wise, dignified, and somber — not, as Stowe’s characterization implies, exotic, untrained, and ridiculous...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 111–129.
Published: 01 March 2004
... to have taken her leave of Bacon and Gorhambury with the words, “My lord, what a little house have you gotten!” Bacon, whose portraits show him to be a huge, bull-necked man, answered, “Madam, my house is well, but it is you that have made me too great for my house” (Bacon 7:144.) In response...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 192–206.
Published: 01 June 2012
... , 1996 . Print . ———. Finnegans Wake . 1939 . Ed. Rose Danis O' Hanlon John . Cornwall : Houyhnhnm , 2010 . Print . ———. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . 1916 . New York : Penguin , 1993 . Print . ———. Ulysses . 1922 . Ed. Gabler Hans . New York...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 388–399.
Published: 01 September 2009
... for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein . Los Angeles: Black Sparrow P, 1971 . 11 -35. Haselstein, Ulla. “Gertrude Stein's Portraits of Matisse and Picasso.” New Literary History 34 ( 2003 ): 723 -43. ____. “Grammatische Details: Gertrude Steins Porträt Two.” Was aus dem Bild fällt...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 23–53.
Published: 01 January 2004
... . . . as one laughs seeing a very faithful portrait. What you’ve said perfectly char- acterizes French art now, painting and even literature: Zola, Daudet. But perhaps it always happens that people first built their conceptions out of invented, conventionalized figures...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 365–368.
Published: 01 September 2014
...- self enough to provide, in the astronomer, “a portrait of what happens to the scholar who loses self-possession through contact with contagious foreign discourse” (220)? Although Belcher deflects the question to some extent by stating that “it is not my argument that Johnson consciously set about...