Ornament, fantasy, and desire in nineteenth-century French literature
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PQ283 .G67 1992
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PQ283 .G67 1992
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Subjects
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Desire in literature.
Décoration -- Dans la littérature.
Désir -- Dans la littérature.
Désir dans la littérature.
Désir dans la littérature.
Fantasmes -- Dans la littérature.
Fantasmes dans la littérature.
Fantasmes dans la littérature.
Fantasy in literature.
Frans.
Französisch
Französisch.
Français (Langue) -- 19e siècle -- Figures de rhétorique.
Français (Langue) -- 19e siècle -- Figures de rhétorique.
Français (langue) -- 19e siècle -- Figures de rhétorique.
French language -- 19th century -- Figures of speech.
French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Imagination -- Dans la littérature.
Letterkunde.
Literatur
Littérature française -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature française -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature française -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs.
Ornament
Ornamentiek.
Psychanalyse et littérature -- France.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Décoration -- Dans la littérature.
Désir -- Dans la littérature.
Désir dans la littérature.
Désir dans la littérature.
Fantasmes -- Dans la littérature.
Fantasmes dans la littérature.
Fantasmes dans la littérature.
Fantasy in literature.
Frans.
Französisch
Französisch.
Français (Langue) -- 19e siècle -- Figures de rhétorique.
Français (Langue) -- 19e siècle -- Figures de rhétorique.
Français (langue) -- 19e siècle -- Figures de rhétorique.
French language -- 19th century -- Figures of speech.
French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Imagination -- Dans la littérature.
Letterkunde.
Literatur
Littérature française -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature française -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature française -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs.
Ornament
Ornamentiek.
Psychanalyse et littérature -- France.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
xviii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Spine title: Ornament, fantasy & desire in nineteenth-century French literature.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-279) and index.
Description
In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple accessory, raises problems that are at the very heart of aesthetic experience: limits and their transgression, illusion and seduction, pleasure and tension, harmony and confusion, excess and marginality. After placing texts by Nerval, Gautier, Mallarme, Huysmans, and Rachilde within the context of the history and techniques of.
Description
The decorative arts, she reveals in these works the powerful role played by decorative figurations of syntax, diction, and composition. Gordon's detailed textual analyses yield spatial parallels with specific ornamental configurations (interlace, arabesque, decorative frame, horror vacui, trompe l'oeil). These patterns are then studied in relation to a dynamics of desire. Ornament, taken as the site of desire and illuminated by the theories of Charcot, Clerambault.
Description
Freud, Winnicott, and Lacan, highlights important differences between romanticism, symbolism, and decadence. Not only does the author relate ornament to artistic representations of the sublime, the grotesque, and hysteria, but she also reveals that the function of ornament in literature anticipated psychiatric and aesthetic research on decorative form in the fin de siecle.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gordon, R. B. (1992). Ornament, fantasy, and desire in nineteenth-century French literature . Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gordon, Rae Beth, 1940-. 1992. Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-century French Literature. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gordon, Rae Beth, 1940-. Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-century French Literature Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Gordon, R. B. (1992). Ornament, fantasy, and desire in nineteenth-century french literature. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gordon, Rae Beth. Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-century French Literature Princeton University Press, 1992.
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