Romantic Re-Vision: Culture and Consciousness in Nineteenth Century American Painting and Literature - Couverture souple

Wolf, Bryan Jay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226905020 ISBN 13 : 9780226905020

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1986

Synopsis

In this revisionist portrait of nineteenth-century American art and literature, Bryan Jay Wolf applies the critical vocabulary of structuralism, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to analyze the early painting of Washington Allston, John Quidor, and Thomas Cole. Romanticism, he suggests, is an instance of early modernism and must be understood within the context of those concerns that characterize the contemporary world: language and signs, artistic identity- formation, and self-referentiality. Throughout his essays, Wolf links the artists under discussion to such seminal writers and philosophers as Coleridge, Emerson, Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Charles Brockden Brown, Jonathan Edwards, Edmund Burke, Kierkegaard, Kant, Freud, and Lacan. This is by far the most original, intelligent, and stimulating interpretation of early nineteenth-century American painting that has yet been written.... Wolf s subtle, rigorous, and sustained use of Freud and Lacan marks a significant advance in the adaptation of psychoanalytic concepts and methods to the study of works of visual art. Michael Fried, The Johns Hopkins University Wolf breaks important ground in American Studies scholarship, contributing substantively to our understanding of the Romantic sensibility while at the same time offering a new theoretical framework for the study of the relationship between visual and literary art. Drawing on the insights of Geoffrey

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226905020
• ISBN 13: 9780226905020
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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