Flaubert and the Pictorial Arts

From Image to Text
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-815918-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

This is the first book ever to be written about the relationship between Flauberts writing and pictorial art. Flauberts responses to a wide range of pictorial images, from classical to popular, were both powerful and ambivalent, with insights, in many instances, of an extraordinary modernity, and intuitions of an art of the future. This study traces the processes by which pictorial art penetrates the very fibre of Flauberts writing. Viewed by Flaubert as the sister art, pictorial art is for him both rival and foil. This study casts significant new light on the poetic system of a major writer, and adds a new dimension to the study of the literary and aesthetic sensibilities of the mid-nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tooke, Adrianne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- I. Flaubert and the Image: A General View

- Images, Memory, and the Imagination

- Text and Image

- II. A Pictorial Education: Flauberts Travel Years

- Art Commentaries (I): 18401848

- Art Commentaries (II): The Voyage en Orient, 18491851

- Nature into Art: Travel Descriptions and Pictorialist Models

- III. The Mature Years: The Role of the Pictorial in Flaubert's Major Works of Fiction

- Bouvard et Pécuchet: Peinture, the Missing Chapter

- Figural Sources and Models

- The Power of the Image

- Conclusion

- Appendices

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adrianne Tooke is Lecturer in French, Somerville College, Oxford