Beautiful, Elusive, Uninhabitable
Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 426 g
ISBN: 978-3-032-20298-7
Verlag: Springer
W.H. Auden once remarked that the complete of Jean Cocteau could fill a warehouse. Over the course of his life, Cocteau produced an impressive range of works, ranging from poems, plays, films, and novels to drawings, sculptures, stained-glass windows, and interior design. His mind was brimful of imagination and wonder, drawing on tropes, themes, and iconography from Greek myth and tragedy to medieval folklore, children’s fairy tales, and the experimental movements of the Interwar Years, while always channelling into his work an idiosyncratic desire to express the beauty of poetic experience. argues, with reference to a comprehensive body of his work and anecdotes of his life, that the world of this great polymath sits on the precipice of something otherworldly. His work and life perpetually elude us, and his individuality points to a desire to strive for something greater, and to inhabit a realm found somewhere between the known and unknown, material and spiritual, finite and infinite.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 01: A Tale of Two Worlds?.- Chapter 2: Standing on the Circumference of the Circle.- Chapter 3: Barriers to Communication.- Chapter 4: A Sincere Aesthete.- Chapter 5: The Solitary Catholic.- Chapter 6: Beyond Time and Place.
