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Storying the Portrait: The Case of Mae West
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 39, Number 1, Winter 2016
- pp. 34-44
- 10.1353/bio.2016.0015
- Article
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In portraiture, the single captured moment is inwardly and outwardly referential, rather than storied in a narrative way that unfolds across time. With reference to poetry by Paisley Rekdal and Edward Field, this essay explores the prospect of creating an equivalent in writing for the portraitive experience of ‘inhabiting’ a single moment.