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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964258603321

Autore

Berg William J

Titolo

Imagery and ideology : fiction and painting in nineteenth-century France / / William J. Berg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, : University of Delaware Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8453-4893-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

843/.709357

Soggetti

French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Painting in literature

Art and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Imagery and Ideology: Literature and Painting -- Ideology Laid Bare: Corneille and David -- Imagery and Conflicting Ideologies: Chateaubriand and Girodet -- The Modern Pygmalion: Balzac and Daumier -- ''Les trois glorieuses'': Stendhal, Delacroix, and Hugo -- Idealizing the Image of the Peasant: Sand, Holbein, and Millet -- Salome's Dance: Flaubert, Moreau, and Huysmans -- From Imagery to Ideology through Irony: Zola and Manet -- Impressionist Ideology: Maupassant, Monet, and Renoir père et fils -- Kaleidoscopic Images of Algerian Women: Delacroix, Picasso, and Djebar -- Conclusion: Reading in the Modern Mode -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

By juxtaposing the works of ten major writers and ten painters of comparable stature, this book explores the various modalities and layers of meaning in nineteenth-century French art, both verbal and visual. It proposes ways of reading the ambivalent artifacts of modernity.