Self-portrait in literature: illustration and ruin
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17398/1888-4067.9.321Keywords:
literary self-portrait, ecphrasis, perception, representationAbstract
The application to the literary context of the term and concept
of portrait, here including the later species of self-portrait, is not fluent
today, despite the recognized permeability of the genre to many
artistic languages and despite a long tradition of figure descriptions –
particularly when it comes to the rhetoric-poetic representation
of feminine beauty – going back to classical poetry. Starting from a possible distinction between literary self-portrait and several variants
of intimate and autobiographical writings with which it delineates
borders not always strictly clear, it is our purpose to illustrate, by using
selected cases, modes of verbal realization of self-portrait that
gradually distance themselves from a representative paradigm based
on perception and likeness, and that, on the contrary...
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