Henri Michaux - Poetry, Painting and the Universal Sign

Zusatztext Margaret Rigaud-Drayton has performed and invaluable service by examining Michaux's contradictions and paradoxes ... a subtle and provocative book ... The secretive and elusive Michaux emerges from this excellent study with a much more tangible grandeur. Informationen zum Autor Margaret Rigaud-Drayton is College Lecturer in French at Christ's College Cambridge. She has previously been Lecturer in French at the University of Virginia; Senior Scholar at St Hugh's College, Oxford; and Professeur Eleve Stagiaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses. Klappentext Henri Michaux is widely recognized as a major twentieth-century French poet and painter. Although his fascination with universal languages has attracted critical attention, it has up until now been treated as a marginal concern. This study argues that Michaux's ideas on universal languages are central to an understanding of his works. Zusammenfassung Henri Michaux is widely recognized as a major twentieth-century French poet and painter. Although his fascination with universal languages has attracted critical attention, it has up until now been treated as a marginal concern. This study argues that Michaux's ideas on universal languages are central to an understanding of his works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Michaux between France and Belgium 2: Self and Other 3: Dreaming of a Universal Language 4: Writing in Another (French) Language

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• Authors: Margaret Rigaud-Drayton, Margaret (College Lecturer in Fren Rigaud-Drayton, Rigaud-Drayton Margaret
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2005
• EAN: 9780199277988
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927798-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Individual artists, art monographs, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets