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Transposing Art into Texts in French Romantic Literature
Henry F. Majewski
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Paperback. This text examines literary representations of various art forms in a series of major texts from the romantic period of French literature. Majewski explores efforts to represent and interpret artworks in poems and novels by a diverse collection of writers including Balzac and Hugo. Series: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature. Num Pages: 110 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
This book examines literary representations of various art forms in a series of major texts from the Romantic period of French literature (1800-1850). There has been considerable recent critical interest in intermediality--and specifically in ekphrasis, or the verbal representation of a visual work--in Western European literature, but little attention has been given to French writers in this tradition. French poets and novelists made a concerted effort, however, to develop interarts relations in the first half of the nineteenth century, even before Baudelaire articulated his famous concept of the correspondences among the arts. Henry Majewski explores efforts to represent and interpret ... Read more
This book examines literary representations of various art forms in a series of major texts from the Romantic period of French literature (1800-1850). There has been considerable recent critical interest in intermediality--and specifically in ekphrasis, or the verbal representation of a visual work--in Western European literature, but little attention has been given to French writers in this tradition. French poets and novelists made a concerted effort, however, to develop interarts relations in the first half of the nineteenth century, even before Baudelaire articulated his famous concept of the correspondences among the arts. Henry Majewski explores efforts to represent and interpret ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Number of Pages
110
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807892770
SKU
V9780807892770
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About Henry F. Majewski
HENRY F. MAJEWSKI is professor of French studies, emeritus, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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