"My Own Portrait in Writing" self-fashioning in the letters of Vincent van Gogh

Art historians, biographers, and other researchers have long drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence—more than eight hundred letters—for insights into both his personal struggles and his art. But the letters, while often admired for their literary quality, have rarely been approached as litera...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Grant, Patrick, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton, Alberta : Athabasca University Press 2015
2015.
Colección:Cultural dialectics.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009800335906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Dialogical Structure of Self-Fashioning
  • 1 The Painterly Writer
  • 2 Binaries, Contradictions, and “Arguments on Both Sides”-- 3 Reading Van Gogh';s Letter-Sketches
  • 4 Imagination and the Limits of Self-Fashioning
  • Conclusion: Envoi.