Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature / / Rae Beth Gordon.
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 tensio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- AN INTRODUCTION TO ORNAMENT
- PART I: ROMANTICISM
- CHAPTER ONE: The Enchanted Hand: Schlegel's Arabesque in Nerval
- CHAPTER TWO: Lace as Textual Metaphor in Nerval's Sylvie
- CHAPTER THREE: Trills, Frills, and Decorative Frames for the Object of Desire
- CHAPTER FOUR: The Evil Eye: Ornamental Vision as the Sublime
- PART II: SYMBOLISM AND DECADENCE
- CHAPTER FIVE: Trompe l'Oeil in the Poems of Mallarme
- CHAPTER SIX: Aboli Bibelot? Excess, Void, and Objectless Desire
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Ornament and Hysteria: Huysmans and Rachilde
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index