Jackson The World of Jean Cocteau

Beautiful, Elusive, Uninhabitable
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-20299-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

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.

Jackson, James

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

James Jackson  is the author of   (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).He earned his PhD from the University of Southampton, UK in 2022. His scholarly interests include French culture, cinema, and literature; European history, culture, literature and cinema; intellectual history; historical memory; comparative studies, and the interdisciplinary nature of the humanities/liberal arts.