William Chapman Sharpe

Grasping Shadows

The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film

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Produktbeschreibung

Grasping Shadows offers the most thorough examination of the cultural uses of shadows. Exploring a myriad of major literary and artistic evocations of shadows, Grasping Shadows puts forth a unifying theory for how shadows function and how they transformed our relationship to darkness and light.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1111g
• ISBN-13: 9780190675271
• ISBN-10: 0190675276
• Artikelnr.: 48574854

Autorenporträt

William Chapman Sharpe is a Professor of English at Barnard College. His previous books include New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950 (2008) and Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Shadow Speaks
Chapter 2: The Vital Shadow
Chapter 3: The Look Elsewhere Shadow
Chapter 4: The Completing Shadow
Chapter 5: The Independent Shadow
Chapter 6: City of Shadows
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index