Sightings : mirrors in texts -- texts in mirrors / Joyce O. Lowrie.

Author/creator Lowrie, Joyce O.
Format Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008.
Descriptionxi, 228 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAt 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LanguageIn English ; with some text in French.
ISBN9789042024953 (pbk.)
ISBN904202495X (pbk.)

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