Symbolist Aesthetics and Early Abstract Art - Sites of Imaginary Space

Klappentext This book presents an innovative analysis of the role of imagination as a central concept in both literary and art criticism. Dee Reynolds brings this approach to bear on works by Rimbaud! Mallarm! Kandinsky! and Mondrian. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Imagination and imaginary space; 2. Verbal hallucination: Rimbaud's poetics of rhythm; 3. Reflections in black and white: Mallarmé and the act of writing; 4. Putting the spectator in the picture: Kandinsky's pictorial world; 5. Between the lines: form and transformation in Mondrian; 6. Universal exceptions: sites of imaginary space; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Dee Reynolds, Dee (University of Bristol) Reynolds
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521619356
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61935-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies