Enchanted Objects : Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Art and Objects in Contemporary Fiction -- Aesthetic Objects -- Enchantment -- Display -- Looking at Collections -- Certain Distances -- 2 Details: Vermeer and Specificity -- In Particular -- Women, Objects, Stillness -- A Poetics of Detail -- The Fate of Two Paintings -- Labour and Excess in Girl with a Pearl Earring -- 3 Ornament: Books in A Case of Curiosities and Salamander -- Enchanted Books -- Theories of Ornament -- A Case of Curiosities: Collection and Display -- Books and Infinity in Salamander -- 4 Fragility: The Case of Utz -- Broken Idols -- The End of Museums -- Fragility -- 5 Looking at Ugliness: Pascali's Island and Stone Virgin -- Representation -- Digging -- Theories of Ugliness -- Conservation -- 6 Conclusion: On Display -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Addressing current debates in museum studies, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism, Enchanted Objectsdevelops an extensive theory of how contemporary literature engages with and relates to aesthetic objects.

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