LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Introduction: The Dialogical Structure of Self-Fashioning
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-----Van Gogh Old and New: Reading the Letters as Literature
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-----What Is Literature Anyway? Cultural Codes and Timeless Truths
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-----Bakhtin, Dialogue, and the Self Interrupted
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-----Embodied Intentions: The Textual Dynamics of Self-Fashioning
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-----Conclusion: Van Gogh’s “Double-Voiced Discourse”
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1 The Painterly Writer
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-----Dissolving Boundaries: Word-Painting and the Sister Arts
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-----Ideal Space, Existential Time
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-----Drawing and Painting: From Morality to Aesthetics
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-----Thinking About Colour and Seeing Beyond It
Page 59-61
-----Conclusion: Dialogical Means and Personal Ends
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2 Binaries, Contradictions, and “Arguments on Both Sides”
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-----Contradiction, Paradox, and the Shaping of Commitment
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-----Half-Measures and Negative Contrasts
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-----Deconstructing the Binaries
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-----The Sower: A Dialogue of Life and Death
Page 85-90
-----Conclusion: Contradiction and the Quest for Meaning
Page 91-93
3 Reading Van Gogh’s Letter-Sketches
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-----The Letter-Sketches and the Letters
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-----Narrative Dimensions
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-----Representing the Sacred
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-----Homo Viator
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-----Conclusion: Enhancing the Text
Page 156-159
4 Imagination and the Limits of Self-Fashioning
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-----Open Sea and Enchanted Ground: The Perils of Commitment
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-----Imagination: “Impossible Windmills”
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-----Imagination: “That’s Rich, That’s Poetry”
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-----Safe Enough to Let Go: On Perseverance and Spontaneity
Page 174-177
-----Conclusion: Managing the Dialogue
Page 178-179
Conclusion: Envoi
Page 180-187
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