- Authors
- Professor Doktor Stefan Horlacher Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften
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- “The sad, proud old man stared eternally out of his canvas...”
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- Media Criticism, Scopic Regimes and the Function of Rembrandt’s “Self-Portrait with Two Circles” in John Fowles’s Novel Daniel Martin
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- Anglia : Journal Of English Philology
Herausgeber: Lucia Kornexl
Erscheinungsort: Berlin
Verlag: de Gruyter
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Jahrgang: 136
Heft: 4
Seiten: 705-732
ISSN: 0340-5222
E-ISSN: 1865-8938 - publication_date
- 2018
- Abstract (EN)
- On the surface level, Fowles’s novel sets the trust in the timelessness of art and the possibility of a recourse to some kind of ‘true self’ against American hyperreality. Though the novel’s verdict on the American scopic regime of simulacra is devastating, England’s morbid theatricality does not represent an alternative. However, a novel which criticizes visuality only to accord Rembrandt’s “Self- Portrait” a place of utmost importance necessarily runs into problems of self-contradiction: Rembrandt’s self-portrait refuses any one-dimensional functionalization and contains self-reflexive/revocative elements pertaining to its capitalist dimension and to the dangers of commodification/narcissism/serialization. Moreover, Rembrandt’s portrait is located at the centre of a whole series of mises en abyme and contains significant autotelic elements which link it with the criticized American scopic regime, question its representational dimension by stressing the pure materiality of the work of paint and revoke Fowles’s novel and its didactic media-theoretical underpinnings.
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DOI: 10.1515/ang-2018-0069 - Keywords (DE)
- Medienkritik, skopische Regime, Selbstporträt, John Fowles, Rembrandt
- Keywords (EN)
- media criticism, scopic regimes, self-portraiture, John Fowles, Rembrandt
- Classification (DDC)
- 820
- Classification (RVK)
- HC 1000
- Publishing house
- De Gruyter, Berlin
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- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-364333
- Qucosa date of publication
- 23.12.2019
- Document type
- article
- Document language
- English
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