In the Mind's Eye : : The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin / / Alexandra K. Wettlaufer.
This comparative, interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between literature and the visual arts in France and Britain from 1750-1900. Through a close examination of the prose writings of Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin, read against the background of contemporary philosophy, aesthetics...
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| Superior document: | Faux Titre ; 236 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faux Titre ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Visual Impulse in Prose: Border Crossings and the Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity
- Chapter 1 Towards a Visual Discourse: Theories of the Origin of Language, Enargeia, Ekphrasis and Associationism
- Chapter 2 Diderot's Visual Prose: Gesture, Hieroglyph and the Visual Imagination
- Chapter 3 Baudelaire and the Salons: The Critic as Artist
- Chapter 4 Les Paradis Artificiels, Le Surnaturel and the Prose Poem : The Aesthetics of Psychological Flânerie
- Chapter 5 Ruskin and the Language of Images
- Chapter 6 Ruskin's Moving Images: The Politics and the Poetics of the Paragone
- Conclusion Diderot, Baudelaire, Ruskin: Envisioning Visionaries
- Bibliography.