My Own Portrait in Writing: Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh

• Main Author: Patrick Grant (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2015
• Series: Cultural Dialectics
• Subjects: Mathematics & science; letter-sketches; Terry Eagleton; modern literary theory; modern literary studies; Mikahil Bakhtin; Vincent van Gogh
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Art historians, biographers, and other researchers have long drawn on Van Gogh's voluminous correspondence-more than eight hundred letters-for insights into both his personal struggles and his art. But the letters, while often admired for their literary quality, have rarely been approached as l...