The Book of Portraiture

In The Book of Portraiture, Steve Tomasula further develops his exploration of the meaning of forms. Through its constitutive play on imitation –each chapter taking up a form of writing, in the larger sense of the term, and a genre specific to a given time–, The Book of Portraiture offers an origina...

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Main Author: Anne-Laure Tissut
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2012-01-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/3906
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