The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals

The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals
Author: Michael Kernan
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1995-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312131173

Diaries found in a Long Island garage just might be the work of famed Dutch portrait painter Frans Hals--or they may be clever forgeries. When a Columbia graduate student is hired to translate and corroborate, he finds a world rich with color, drama, and emotion.

The Author as Character

The Author as Character
Author: A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838637869

"Many fictional works have real, historical authors as characters. Great national literary icons like Virgil and Shakespeare have been fictionalized in novels, plays, poems, movies, and operas. This fashion might seem typically postmodern, the reverse side of the contention that the Author is Dead; but this collection of essays shows that the representation of historical authors as characters can boast of a considerable history, and may well constitute a genre in its own right. This volume brings together a collection of articles on appropriations of historical authors, written by experts in a wide range of major Western literatures."--BOOK JACKET.

Ekphrastic encounters

Ekphrastic encounters
Author: David Kennedy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2018-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526125811

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally regarded as a form of paragone (competition) between word and image. This interdisciplinary collection of essays seeks to complicate this critical paradigm and proposes a more reciprocal model of ekphrasis that involves an encounter or exchange between visual and textual cultures. This critical and theoretical shift demands a new form of ekphrastic poetics, which is less concerned with representational and institutional struggles, and more concerned with ideas of ethics, affect and intersubjectivity. Ekphrastic encounters brings together leading scholars working in the field of word-and-image studies and offers a fresh exploration of ekphrastic texts from the Renaissance to the present day. Taken together, the chapters establish a new set of theoretical frameworks for exploring the ekphrastic encounter.

Book Review Index

Book Review Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1520
Release: 2003
Genre: Books
ISBN:

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Cassette Books

Cassette Books
Author: Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1978
Genre: Talking books
ISBN:

Now Read this

Now Read this
Author: Nancy Pearl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Offers an annotated listing of 1,000 acclaimed or award-winning novels, each with a plot summary, indication of suitability for a discussion group, list of subject headings, and recommendations for similar titles.

Singular Women

Singular Women
Author: Kristen Frederickson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2003-03-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520231658

Contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. These 13 essays address the work and history of specific artists, beginning with the Renaissance and ending with the present day.