
"My Own Portrait in Writing"
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Patrick Grant(Author)
AU Press
Published on 15. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-77199-045-5 (ISBN)
Description
A reading of Van Gogh's collected correspondence by way of aset of ideas about dialogue and self-fashioning derived especially fromMikhail Bakhtin. Patrick Grant's central claim is that VanGogh's letters raise from within themselves questions and issuesto which they also respond dialogically, thereby thematizing theprocess of self-fashioning within their own discourse. The manner inwhich they do so is a marker of the specifically literary dimension ofVan Gogh's writing. Complementing Grant's earlier criticalanalysis, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: A Critical Study(AU Press, 2014), this study brings Van Gogh's collectedcorrespondence fully into the domain of modern literary studies, bothcritical and theoretical-as is long overdue.
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Language
English
Place of publication
EDMONTON
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
full-colour throughout, 26 colour letter-sketches
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77199-045-5 (9781771990455)
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Patrick Grant, professor emeritus of English at theUniversity of Victoria, is well known for his studies on literature andreligion. In addition to The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: ACritical Study, he is the author of Imperfection, a studyof the human aspiration to self-knowledge.
Content
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: The Dialogical Structure of Self-Fashioning
1 The Painterly Writer
2 Binaries, Contradictions, and "Arguments on BothSides"
3 Reading Van Gogh's Letter-Sketches
4 Imagination and the Limits of Self-Fashioning
Conclusion: Envoi
Notes; Index
Preface
Introduction: The Dialogical Structure of Self-Fashioning
1 The Painterly Writer
2 Binaries, Contradictions, and "Arguments on BothSides"
3 Reading Van Gogh's Letter-Sketches
4 Imagination and the Limits of Self-Fashioning
Conclusion: Envoi
Notes; Index