The Portrait of a Ghost: Isabel Archer in “The Portrait of a Lady”

            Isabel Archer’s life, or better, what we get to know about her through her peculiar biographer, is a struggle between possibility and limitation, insight and blindness, art and life. Two discreet turning points, two uncanny lighthouses, mark her quest: the two moments when a ghost is mentioned in the text. For from the very [...]

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