Grasping Shadows - The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Foreword

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (2018)

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: William Chapman Sharpe, William Chapman (Professor of English Sharpe, Sharpe William Chapman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780190675271
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067527-1
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Photography & photographs, ART / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Painting & paintings, Photography and photographs, Paintings and painting, The arts: general topics