Picture As Spectre In Diderot Proust And Deleuze

Author : Thomas Baldwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351193214

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Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze by Thomas Baldwin Pdf

"The possibility of ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual imagery, is fundamental to all writing about art, be it art criticism, theory or a passage in a novel. But there is no consensus concerning how such representation works. Some take it for granted that writing about art can result in a precise match between words and visual images. For others, ekphrasis amounts to a kind of virtuoso rivalry, in which the writer aims to outdo the pictorial image that is being described. In close readings of Diderot, Proust and Deleuze, Thomas Baldwin shows how ekphrasis can create a spectral effect. In other words, ekphrastic spectres do not function as fully present stand-ins for given works of art; nor can they be reduced to the status of passive and absent others. Baldwin also explores the ways in which the works of Diderot, Proust and Deleuze inhabit each other as ghostly influences."

Author : Jeffrey R. Di Leo,Zahi Zalloua
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501367410

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Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism by Jeffrey R. Di Leo,Zahi Zalloua Pdf

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to Barthes's death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980). The second part focuses both on the posthumously published material and the legacies of his work after his death in 1980. This later work has attracted attention, for example, in conjunction with notions of the neutral, gay writing, and critiques of everyday life. The third part is devoted to some of the critical vocabulary of Barthes in both the work he published during his lifetime, and that which was published posthumously.

Author : Christie McDonald,François Proulx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107103368

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Proust and the Arts by Christie McDonald,François Proulx Pdf

Offers new perspectives on Proust's complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras.

Author : Natasha Grigorian,Margaret Rigaud-Drayton,Thomas Baldwin
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781612492421

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Text and Image in Modern European Culture by Natasha Grigorian,Margaret Rigaud-Drayton,Thomas Baldwin Pdf

Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this volume explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design (fashion, architecture), hybrid texts (visual poetry, surrealist pocket museums, poetic photo-texts), and text and image relations under the impact of modern technologies (avant-garde experiments, digital poetry). The discussion encompasses pivotal fin de siècle, modernist, and postmodernist works and movements in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Spain. A selected bibliography of work published in the field is also included. The volume will appeal to scholars of comparative literature, art history, and visual studies, and it includes contributions appropriate for supplementary reading in senior undergraduate and graduate seminars.

Author : Thomas Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781789620016

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Roland Barthes: the Proust Variations by Thomas Baldwin Pdf

This book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism - literary or otherwise - can do. While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, the book argues that Barthes's writing on Proust's work between the early 1950s and 1980 (including a substantial set of unpublished notes for a series of seminars delivered at the University of Rabat in 1969-1970) proposes not only a critical culture of Proust that is productively inconsistent, but also, more generally, a fresh understanding of criticism as a creative activity that embraces insecurity and variation as it refuses to remain fixed upon reassuringly stable themes, meanings and interpretations.

Author : Nathalie Aubert
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783163144

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Proust and the Visual by Nathalie Aubert Pdf

Proust and the Visual is an edited volume of essays written by Proustian specialists, concerned with a rich phenomenological category, the “visual” whose prominent role in the novel is at the heart of its modernity. The “visual” is defined as manifesting in the image not only space, but also time. The “visual” is considered as a category that delineates the conditions of possibility of all visibility and constitutes an integral part of both the progression of the narrator’s journey towards becoming a writer and of the unfolding of the novel itself.

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107021891

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Marcel Proust in Context by Adam Watt Pdf

This wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust's life and work.

Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004302426

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Swann at 100 / Swann à 100 ans by Adam Watt Pdf

This number of Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, ‘Swann at 100/Swann à 100 ans’, brings together fifteen articles, in English and French, that approach Du côté de chez Swann from various perspectives: reception studies, thematic and stylistic studies, cultural and intellectual history. Ce numéro de Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, ‘Swann at 100/Swann à 100 ans’ regroupe quinze articles, en anglais et en français, traitant de Du côté de chez Swann sous plusieurs perspectives : réception, thématique, stylistique, histoire culturelle et intellectuelle.

Author : James Fowler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139500555

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New Essays on Diderot by James Fowler Pdf

The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the French Revolution. Known as one of the three greatest philosophes of the Enlightenment, Diderot rejected the Christian ideas in which he had been raised. Instead, he became an atheist and a determinist. His radical questioning of received ideas and established religion led to a brief imprisonment, and for that reason, no doubt, some of his subsequent works were written for posterity. This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of this extraordinary figure as we approach the tercentenary of his birth.

Author : Anna Elsner,Thomas Stern
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000790634

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The Proustian Mind by Anna Elsner,Thomas Stern Pdf

When Marcel Proust started to work on In Search of Lost Time in 1908, he wrote this question in his notebook: ‘Should I make it a novel, a philosophical study, am I a novelist?’ Throughout his famous multi-volume work, Proust directly engages several philosophers, and few novels are as thoroughly saturated with philosophical themes and concepts as In Search of Lost Time. The Proustian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the rich philosophical range of Proust’s work and the first major volume of its kind. Including 31 chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into seven clear parts: Proust’s life and works metaphysics and epistemology mind and language aesthetics ethics gender and sexuality predecessors, contemporaries and successors. Within these sections, key Proustian themes are explored from a philosophical standpoint, including time, the self, memory, imagination, jealousy, beauty, love, subjectivity and desire. The final section considers Proust in relation to important philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. The Proustian Mind is essential reading for those studying aesthetics, philosophy of literature, phenomenology and ethics, and will also be of interest to those in literature studying modernism, French literature and the relationship between literature and philosophy.

Author : Sheri K. Dion
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781575912042

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French XX Bibliography 65 by Sheri K. Dion Pdf

Author : Ian James,Emma Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134862771

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Lucidity by Ian James,Emma Wilson Pdf

This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites, forms of obscurity and darkness. They offer attention to problems of philosophical thought and reason, to questions of literary and poetic form, and of photographic and filmic contemplation. Ranging from engagements with early modern writing through to more recent material the contributions focus in particular on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French prose and poetry, the field which has been the predominant focus of Alison Finch’s critical writing. They are written as tributes to the distinctively lucid insights of her work and to the breadth and clarity of its intellectual engagement.

Author : T. Baldwin,J. Fowler,A. de Medeiros,Ana de Medeiros
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137309143

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Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature by T. Baldwin,J. Fowler,A. de Medeiros,Ana de Medeiros Pdf

This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards. Connections are made with related work in a range of disciplines.

Author : Erika Kuijpers,Cornelis van der Haven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137564900

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Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800 by Erika Kuijpers,Cornelis van der Haven Pdf

This book explores changes in emotional cultures of the early modern battlefield. Military action involves extraordinary modes of emotional experience and affective control of the soldier, and it evokes strong emotional reactions in society at large. While emotional experiences of actors and observers may differ radically, they can also be tightly connected through social interaction, cultural representations and mediatisation. The book integrates psychological, social and cultural perspectives on the battlefield, looking at emotional behaviour, expression and representation in a great variety of primary source material. In three steps it discusses the emotional practices in the army, the emotional experiences of the individual combatant and the emotions of the mediated battlefield in the visual arts.

Author : Giles Whiteley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351555456

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Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum by Giles Whiteley Pdf

Oscar Wilde is more than a name, more than an author. From precocious Oxford undergraduate to cause celebre of the West End of the 1890s, to infamous criminal, the proper name Wilde has become an event in the history of literature and culture. Taking Wilde seriously as a philosopher in his own right, Whiteley's groundbreaking book places his texts into their philosophical context in order to show how Wilde broke from his peers, and in particular from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist readings of Wilde which seem content to limit his irruptive power. Using the paradoxical concept of the simulacrum to resituate Wilde's work in relation to both his precursors and his contemporaries, Whiteley's study reads Wilde through Deleuze and postmodern philosophical commentary on the simulacrum. In a series of striking juxtapositions, Whiteley challenges us to rethink both Oscar Wilde's aesthetics and his philosophy, to take seriously both the man and the mask. His philosophy of masks is revealed to figure a truth of a different kind - the simulacra through which Wilde begins to develop and formulate a mature philosophy that constitutes an ethics of joy.