Pictorialist Poetics - Poetry and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France

Klappentext This book offers a comprehensive description of how nineteenth-century writers became increasingly aware of the visual element in writing. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Poetry and painting; 2. The poet as art critic; 3. Visual sources; 4. The aesthetics of prosody; 5. The art of transposition; 6. 'Spatial' structure and the prose poem; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: David H. T. Scott, David H.t. Scott
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521110594
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11059-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history