Pictorialist poetics : poetry and the visual arts in nineteenth-century France / David Scott.

Main entry:

Scott, David H. T.

Title & Author:

Pictorialist poetics : poetry and the visual arts in nineteenth-century France / David Scott.

Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Description:

xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Cambridge studies in French

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.

Summary:

This book offers a comprehensive description of how writers, in particular poets in nineteenth-century France, became increasingly aware of the visual element in writing from the point of view both of content and of the formal organisation of the words in the text. This interest encouraged writers such as Baudelaire, Mallarme and Rimbaud to recreate in language some of the vivid, sensual impact of the graphic or painterly image. This was to be achieved by organising texts according to aesthetic criteria so that as far as possible the form of the text as visually perceived would be closely interrelated to its content as reconstructed through the reading process. The result of this development was a radical redefinition of the scope and function of poetry, raising important general questions about the nature of the relationship between language and the visual image that are still very much of concern today.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0521341175
9780521341172

Subject:

French poetry 19th century History and criticism.
Art and literature France History 19th century.
Visual perception in literature.
Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
Aesthetics, French 19th century.
Picturesque, The, in literature.
Poésie française 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Art et littérature France Histoire 19e siècle.
Perception visuelle dans la littérature.
Ut pictura poesis (Esthétique)
Esthétique française 19e siècle.
Pittoresque dans la littérature.
ut pictura poesis.
Aesthetics, French.
Art and literature.
French poetry.
Gedichten.
Schilderkunst.
Visuele waarneming.
Frans.
Ut pictura poesis (esthétique)
Pittoresque Dans la littérature.
Art et littérature France 19e siècle.
Esthétique France 19e siècle.
Pittoresque.
France.
Poetry in French Influence of French visual arts, 1800-1900
French visual arts Influence of poetry in French, 1800-1900

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Cambridge studies in French.

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Location: Library main 30931
Call No.: ID:88-B2881
Status: Available

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