In the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin (Faux Titre, Band 236) - Softcover

Wettlaufer, Alexandra K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042010355 ISBN 13: 9789042010352

Verlag: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2003

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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.

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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.

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• Verlag: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9042010355
• ISBN 13: 9789042010352
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
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