In the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin - Couverture souple

Wettlaufer, Alexandra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042010355 ISBN 13 : 9789042010352

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2003

Synopsis

This comparative, interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between literature and the visual arts in France and Britain from 1750-1900. Through a close examination of the prose writings of Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin, read against the background of contemporary philosophy, aesthetics and theories of language, In the Mind's Eye proposes a new interpretation of the influence and rivalries underlying the development of art criticism as a genre during this period. The visual impulse - the desire to transcend the limitations of language and make the reader see - is located within the historical traditions of ekphrasis, enargeia and the paragone, while in each chapter, the individual author's theories of the mind, memory and imagination provide a critical framework for his stylistic experiments. In the Mind's Eye presents an in-depth analysis of the cultural, theoretical and aesthetic implications of artistic border crossings, and by contextualizing the movement toward visual/verbal hybridity in the fiction and criticism of Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin, brings new perspectives to nineteenth-century studies in art and literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alexandra Wettlaufer is an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Pen vs. Paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac and the Myth of Pygmalion, she specializes in nineteenth-century literature and the visual arts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042010355
• ISBN 13: 9789042010352
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible