While Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray depicts the quintessential literary portrait endowed with uncanny life and movement, dozens of such magic portraits are featured in Victorian fiction. From the ravishing picture of the title character in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret to the coveted portrait of a Romantic poet in Henry James's The Aspern Papers, imagined portraits in these texts serve as conduits of desire and fear--windows into passions and repressions that reveal not only the images' external effects but their relation to the unconscious of their viewers. My dissertation turns a critical eye on this gallery of ekphrastic pictures--those not actually visible to the reader but rather visualizable through verbal description--to argue that the meditations on representation and desire that these novels and stories perform not only anticipate but augment theories of the image and the gaze developed primarily since the advent of cinema. Though the dissertation benefits from film theory's models of visual exchange, the distinctions between these portraits and images in film open up fertile analytical terrain. Ekphrastic magic portraits provide a unique opportunity to delve into the intersecting realms of word painting and image perception, the optics of desire and subjectivity, to advance critical discourses in visual studies that are framed both historically and theoretically. Using psychoanalytic and narratological methodologies, particularly those relevant to feminist and queer image theory, "The Ekphrastic Fantastic" demonstrates how the fictional visual exchanges on display in magic portrait stories elucidate various power struggles regarding sexuality and narrative structuring. These literary pictures thereby provide new access to the social and artistic commentaries that often subtend Victorian fiction. Each chapter considers three primary texts and the branch of image theory most relevant to their deployment of magic portraits. Laura Mulvey's foundational essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," provides the point of departure in the first chapter, which looks at Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White. The second chapter addresses Margaret Oliphant's "The Portrait," Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman," and James's The Aspern Papers with further feminist insights from Vivian Sobchack and Teresa de Lauretis. The final chapter determines the relationship of principles of visual representation and narrative production of the Aesthetic movement to magic portraits in Walter Pater's "Sebastian van Storck," Vernon Lee's "Oke of Okehurst," and Wilde's Dorian Gray, particularly as they relate to the nascent medium of cinema and the theories that soon as well as later arose to account for the impact of its kinetic mirage. The arc of my argument emphasizes how, as the Victorian period advances, the portraits become increasingly animate and subversive in their challenges to patriarchal gender norms and narrative formulas. In this way, they become the mechanisms by which new models of psycho-sexual relations can be expressed and new social and narrative systems can emerge.

This project explores Oscar Wilde's work on painting, the art of dress, and home decor, referred to collectively in his lectures as the 'decorative arts.' While it has become commonplace to assert that Wilde's plays and essays subvert the status quo, few scholars have studied Wilde's work on the decorative arts to substantiate his status as a writer arguing for social and political change. Through an analysis of Wilde's North American lecture tour and his editorship of The Woman's World, as well as his approach to painting, clothing, and home decor in his more well-known work, I argue that Wilde conceives of the decorative arts as a means of expressing and inciting dissatisfaction with the social and political realities of Victorian England. / As I show, Wilde subtly presents avant-garde art, sartorial details, and home decor items as functional ornaments. The formal elements of a painting foster receptivity and, by extension, sensitivity and compassion. Unconventional attire functions as a visual symbol of discontent with social and physical conformity. In light of Wilde's published support of women's emancipation, his writings on home decor imply that the well-decorated house, rather than the Victorian wife, should be responsible for creating domestic harmony. / Wilde's penchant for the decorative arts has long remained the domain of anecdote; the following study instead positions Wilde's interest in the decorative arts as a defining, and insightful, aspect of his oeuvre .

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Texte remanié de : Dissertation : Literatur : Universität Freiburg : 2006 : Der photographische Blick bei Emile Zola. / Bibliogr. p. 249-255. Notes bibliogr.

From the artistic experience of Saint-Denys Garneau, who decided to devote himself to painting and writing at the beginning of the 1930's, to the poetry and essays on art of Claude Gauvreau, Roland Giguere, Jacques Brault or Robert Melancon, Quebec's poetry maintains a fertile dialogue with the art of painting. Whatever form it takes, discourse on art allows the poet to reinforce or refine aesthetic sensibilities, to question the links or the disparities between texts and images, but also to conceive a theory about visual perceptions. Despite all that separates these two expressive modes, literature and painting both produce "visibility": even if some pictures are not figurative or some poems do not contain imagery, visual arts, beyond the topics or themes they provide to writers (landscape, portrait, still life, etc.), contribute to the development of "ways of seeing", ways of perceiving sensitive reality and of inserting oneself as a subject in the world. This is particularly true in the works of the three poets around which the main parts of this study are centered: Saint-Denys Garneau, for whom painting is a way of "learning to see" (apprendre a voir), Roland Giguere, whose poetic and artistic works share a desire to "give to see" (donner a voir), and finally Robert Melancon, who borrows from painters ways to "make see" (faire voir). By using notions and concepts that come from disciplines close to Aesthetics, this work proposes to circumscribe those "ways of seeing" and to assess how painting acts as a "seeing school" (ecole du regard) for these three authors. More broadly, since discourse on painting can be found throughout Quebec's modern poetry, this study also constitutes a point of view on the history of poetry in Quebec since Saint-Denys Garneau. / Keywords: Quebec poetry, painting, Aesthetics, visual perception, history of literature.

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Submitted by WALMIRA SODRÉ AUSTRÍACO MORAES null (walmira.sodre@hotmail.com) on 2016-04-12T00:03:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE MORAES, Walmira Sodré Austríaco .pdf: 20646176 bytes, checksum: f74fdb48a92c1f63709f47e5cfb4d9c2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Felipe Augusto Arakaki (arakaki@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-04-13T13:50:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 moraes_wsa_dr_sjrp.pdf: 20646176 bytes, checksum: f74fdb48a92c1f63709f47e5cfb4d9c2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-13T13:50:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 moraes_wsa_dr_sjrp.pdf: 20646176 bytes, checksum: f74fdb48a92c1f63709f47e5cfb4d9c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-01 / Não recebi financiamento / O corpus desta pesquisa constitui-se dos contos de Edgar Allan Poe, The Domain of Arnheim or Landscape Garden, publicado pela primeira vez em 1847, e Landor’s Cottage. A pendant to “The Domain of Arnheim”, publicado pela primeira vez em 1849. Aos dois contos agrupam-se as pinturas de René Magritte que recebem o mesmo título do conto de Poe: The Domain of Arnheim (1938), The Domain of Arnheim (1944), The Domain of Arnheim (1949) e The Domain of Arnheim (1962). O recorte materializa-se mediante a análise dos efeitos estéticos e das várias produções de sentidos metafóricos registrados nas telas e nos contos. Para tanto, propomos uma discussão que tem como referencial um processo de interpretação sígnica atravessado por uma historicização da relação original entre Poe e Magritte por meio da análise de outras telas e textos subjacentes àqueles que constituem o objeto da nossa investigação. O estudo constrói uma teia de relações em cuja base está a metáfora – pensada em sua historicidade dinâmica – considerada como princípio, meio e fim das injunções estabelecidas. Estimamos, como prioridade, o deslocamento histórico-estético que essa figura sofreu, e a contextualização destaca, portanto, a sua ação transformadora pela qual literatura e pintura interagem por semelhança, por similitude e/ou por dessemelhança. Nesse sentido, a relação dialética proposta constitui-se, no âmbito de nossas discussões, pelo predomínio da metáfora a partir de suas atuações no discurso literário e pictórico e entre eles, e, ainda, em face dos seus deslocamentos. Essa relação privilegia a formação de um quadro teórico que alinhe o ut pictura poesis aos efeitos advindos do uso da metáfora, o que possibilita, a nosso ver, a aproximação efetiva entre literatura (Poe) e pintura (Magritte), com ênfase, sobretudo, nas relações de similaridades estruturais que mantêm entre si. / The corpus of this dissertation is the short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, The Domain of Arnheim or The Landscape Garden, first published in 1847, and Landor’s Cottage. A pendant to “The Domain of Arnheim” first published in 1849. To both tales are the paintings by René Magritte that receive the same title of Poe's short stories: The Domain of Arnheim (1938), The Domain of Arnheim (1944), The Domain of Arnheim (1949) and The Domain of Arnheim (1962). The focus of the research is the analysis of the aesthetic effects and of the various productions of metaphorical meanings registered on the canvas by René Magritte and the short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. In order to accomplish this objective, this dissertation develops a discussion that has as a reference the process of meaning interpretations permeated by a historicization of the original relationship between the two artists through the analysis of other paintings and texts underlying those that, effectively, are the object of the present research. The analysis established with relationships whose base is the metaphor - thought in its dynamic historicity - considered as beginning, middle and end of the established relationships. The study focuses, in the first place, the historical-aesthetic displacement that the metaphor has gone through and this contextualization emphasizes, therefore, the transforming action of this figure of speech through which literature and painting interact between themselves by similarity and/or dissimilarity. In this sense, the dialectical relationship proposed constituted by the predominance of the metaphor from its performances in the literary and pictorial discourse and between themselves and, above all, in their movements. This relationship favors the formation of a theoretical framework that aligns the ut pictura poesis of the effects arisen out of the use of the metaphor, which enables a more effective link between literature (Poe) and painting (Magritte) with emphasis, especially, on the relationship among their structural similarities. / El corpus de esta investigación es los cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe, The Domain of Arnheim or The Landscape Garden, publicada por primera vez en 1847, y Landor’s Cottage. A pendant to “The Domain of Arnheim”, publicada por primera vez en 1849. Los dos cuentos se agrupan las pinturas de René Magritte que reciben el mismo título del cuento de Poe: The Domain of Arnheim (1938), The Domain of Arnheim (1944), The Domain of Arnheim (1949) y The Domain of Arnheim (1962). La delimitación se materializa a través del análisis de efectos estéticos y de las diversas producciones de significados metafóricos inscritos en las pantallas de René Magritte y los cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe. Para este, el trabajo se presenta un debate que tiene como referencia proceso de interpretación medio atravesado por un historicismo la relación original entre los dos artistas mediante el análisis de textos y otras pantallas que aquellos que, efectivamente, son el objeto de esta investigación. El análisis se basa una red de relaciones en que la base es una metáfora, pensaba en su historicidad, considerado como principio, medio y fin de las relaciones establecidas. Según las estimaciones del estudio, como una prioridad, el desplazamiento historia y estética que la metáfora ha sufrido y esta contextualización se destaca, por lo tanto, a la acción transformadora de esta figura por que la literatura y la pintura interactuar por similitud o disimilitud. En este sentido, la relación dialéctica propuesta se lleva a cabo por un predominio de la metáfora de sus actuaciones en los discursos literarios, pictóricos y entre ellos y, sobre todo, en sus desplazamientos Esta relación favorece la formación de un marco teórico que pueda alinear el ut pictura poesis de los efectos derivados de la utilización de la metáfora, lo que hace que el enfoque más eficaz entre la literatura (Poe) y la pintura (Magritte) con énfasis, especialmente en las relaciones de similitud estructural que mantiene entre ellos.