Sightings : mirrors in texts -- texts in mirrors / Joyce O. Lowrie.
| Author/creator | Lowrie, Joyce O. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008. |
| Description | xi, 228 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | At the interface/probing the boundaries ; vol. 54 Visual literacies At the interface/probing the boundaries v. 54. ^A586944 At the interface/probing the boundaries. Visual literacies. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Veluti in speculum (as in a looking glass) -- The mirror in the middle : Mme de Thémines's letter in Lafayette's La princesse de Clèves -- The prévan cycle as pre-text in Laclos's Les liaisons dangereuses -- The frame and the framed : mirroring texts in Balzac's Facino cane -- Barbey d'Aurevilly's Une page d'histoire : incest as mirror image -- Reversals and disappearrance in Georges Rodenbach's L'ami des miroirs and Bruges-la-morte -- Man mirrors toad, or vice-versa : decadent narcissism in Jean Lorrain's Oeuvre -- The wheel of fortune as mirror : André Pieyre de Mandiargue's La motocyclette -- Kaleidoscopic reflections in guise of a conclusion : Close, Maupassant, Douglas and Borges. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language | In English ; with some text in French. |
| ISBN | 9789042024953 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 904202495X (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PN228.C45 L69 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |