Grasping Shadows

A brilliant book on shadows, sure to become a classic. Grasping Shadows is a fascinating, profound and delicate exploration of how evanescence is essential to western art and literature.

Préface
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (2018)

Auteur
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).

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

• 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