Drowned Muse - Casting the Unknown Woman of the Seine Across the Tides of Modernity

Zusatztext The book is beautifully written and illustrated, and, in its impeccable scholarship and imaginative conception of this absent but very present figure, allows not only a valuable discussion on the Inconnue to emerge, but also one that makes almost tangible the aesthetics of modernity. Informationen zum Autor Anne-Gaëlle Saliot is Assistant Professor at Duke University, where she teaches twentieth-century French literature and cinema. In 2011, she was awarded the Mellon Fellowship for her manuscript on the legacies of literature and on visual representations of the "unknown woman of the Seine." Her additional research interests include French theory of the image (Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Rancière), literature and dance, film studies, and more especially the connections between filmmakers of the New Wave and the nineteenth century. Klappentext The Drowned Muse charts the trajectory of representations of L'Inconnue de la Seine in literature and the visual arts since the late 1890s and shows how the mask's metamorphoses track across the years provides points of negotiation through which to better understand modernity. Zusammenfassung The Drowned Muse charts the trajectory of representations of "L'Inconnue de la Seine" in literature and the visual arts since the late 1890s and shows how the mask's metamorphoses track across the years provides points of negotiation through which to better understand modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; I. DEATH AND THE MAIDEN; 1 Thinking an Image in History and Theory; 2 The Most Poetic Topic in The World; 3 White Ophelia Floats like a Great Lily; II. THE DEAD WOMAN AND THE PALIMPSEST OF THE CITY; 4 The Dead Woman and The Modern City; 5 The City as a Magnified Ghost. A Cartography of Survivals; III TRACES OF A METAMORPHOSIS: POPULAR IMAGERY! PHOTOGRAPHY! CINEMA AND THEORY; 6 The Inconnue As Popular Icon; 7 Man Ray and Aurelien: When Text Meets Image; 8 Jellyfish at the Cinema; 9 Emanating as if from the depths of a tomb: The Inconnue's Philosophical Lives; Conclusion; Appendices ...

Product details

• Authors: Anne-Gaelle Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9780198708629
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870862-9
• No. of pages: 390
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; France, 20th Century, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, ART / European, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000