Salome and the Dance of Writing

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

PDF) Salomé: History and Decadence

Salome's Dance

Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature (9780226519722): Françoise Meltzer - BiblioVault

Romance Languages from the University of Chicago Press.

The Gates of Ishtar — vintagegal: Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) - Salome

The Danger of Seeing Too Much: Fin-de-siècle Ethics and Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde's Salome

Rochester Review :: University of Rochester

Early Modern Whale: You make me feel like (not) dancing: early modern Salome

The Conflagration of Community by J. Hillis Miller (Ebook) - Read free for 30 days