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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.<br> <br> Meltzer's readings of textual portraits—in the Gospel writers

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Author

Françoise Meltzer

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226519722

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry

Updated

2026-03-25