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Portraits in literature. --- Literature --- Portraits. --- Portraits dans la littérature --- Littérature --- Portraits --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Portraits dans la littérature --- Littérature --- Thèmes, motifs

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How 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.

Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Mimesis in literature. --- Portraits in literature. --- Mimésis dans la littérature --- Portraits dans la littérature --- 82.09 --- Mimesis in literature --- Portraits in literature --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- Literaire kritiek --- 82.09 Literaire kritiek --- Mimésis dans la littérature --- Portraits dans la littérature

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Baudelaire, Charles --- Art and literature. --- Portraits in literature. --- Art et littérature --- Portraits dans la littérature --- Baudelaire, Charles, --- 840 "18" BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES --- Poets, French --- -French poets --- Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES --- -Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES --- 840 "18" BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES --- Art et littérature --- Portraits dans la littérature --- Baudelaire-Dufaÿs, Charles Pierre, --- Bodler, Sharlʹ, --- Бодлер, Шарль, --- Būdlīr, --- Baudelaire, Charles Pierre, --- Baudelaire, Pierre Charles, --- Dufaÿs, Charles Pierre Baudelaire-, --- Bodler, Shara, --- Bodler, Şarl, --- Śārla Bodaleẏāra, --- Bodaleẏāra, Śārla, --- Bōntlair, K., --- Bodlir, Sharl, --- Bodler, Sh. --- Bōdorēru, Sharuru, --- Μπωντλαίρ, Σαρλ, --- באדלער, טש --- בודליר, שארל, --- בודליר, שר̀ל --- בודלר, שארל, --- בודלר, שרל, --- بودلير, شارل, --- ボードレールシャルル, --- Baudelaire, Charles Pierre --- Baudelaire, Charles. --- Baudelaire, Ch. --- Baudelaire-Dufaÿs, Charles Pierre --- Bodler --- Bodler, Sharlʹ --- Бодлер, Шарль --- Būdlīr --- Baudelaire, Pierre Charles --- Dufaÿs, Charles Pierre Baudelaire --- -Bodler, Shara --- Bodler, Şarl --- Śārla Bodaleẏāra --- Bodaleẏāra, Śārla --- Bōntlair, K. --- Bodlir, Sharl --- Bōdorēru, Sharuru --- C. B., --- B., C., --- בודליר, שרל