The Orient of Style : Modernist Allegories of Conversion
Beryl. Schlossman
Bok Engelsk 1990 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 1990.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (311 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Image of Modernity; 3 The Allegory of Conversion; 4 Necropolis and Carnival: Monuments and Masks of Style; 5 The Sea of Ink; 6 Crimson and Diamonds; 7 Passing Forms; 8 La Charité de Giotto; 9 La Vocation Artistique; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations of literary representation. She demonstrates that through allegory, modernism became a style itself, a style that married the ancient and the modern and that emerged as both a cause and an effect, both an ideal construct and an textual materiality, all symbolized by the Orient-land of style, place of plurality, and site of the coexistence of holy lands.Toward the end of Remembrance of Things Past, t
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| Emner | Flaubert, Gustave , 1821-1880 : (NO-TrBIB)90057549
Proust, Marcel , 1871-1922 : (NO-TrBIB)90052333 Aesthetics, Modern Allegory Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 0822310767. - 0822310945
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