Flaubert and the Pictorial Arts: From Image to Text

ISBN-13: 9780198159186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 336 str.

Adrianne Tooke

Opis

This is the first book ever to be written about the relationship between Flauberts writing and pictorial art. Flaubert's 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 Flaubert's 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.

Recenzje

In Flaubert and the Pictorial Arts, Tooke addresses such matters of image into text with a generous and lucid intelligence.

O autorze

Adrianne Tooke is Lecturer in French, Somerville College, Oxford