Susan Harrow

Colourworks

Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

How do modern writers write colour? How do today's readers respond to the invitation to 'think colour' as they read poetry and art writing, and explore paintings? To what extent can critical thought on colour in visual media illuminate the textual life of colour? These are some of the lines of enquiry pursued in this bold new study of modern poetry and art writing in French, where colour, Susan Harrow argues, is integral to the exploration of ethics, ekphrasis, objects, bodies, landscape and interiority. The question of colour, in a variety of disciplines and media, has provoked debate from Aristotle to Goethe, and from Baudelaire to Derek Jarman. If the past twenty years have witnessed a 'colour turn' in contemporary cultural studies and screen research, colour values in literary and textual media are often elided or, simply, overlooked. Colourworks tackles this lacuna in the study of modern poetry and art writing in French, revealing the integral role of colour in the work of three iconic French writers in the modern tradition: Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry and Yves Bonnefoy. This book spans the broad modern period from the 1860s to the early twenty-first century in taking an exploratory approach to the visuality of the verbal medium through an adventurous reading of text and image. Harrow uncovers how colour moves and morphs in texts as it challenges the traditionalist containments of chromatic symbolism. Beyond its primary area of investigation in modern poetry and art writing in French, this richly colour-illustrated study has significant interdisciplinary implications-conceptual, methodological, and practical-for the study of visuality in humanities research, from literature studies to material and visual culture studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781350182202
• ISBN-10: 1350182206
• Artikelnr.: 59079726

Autorenporträt

Susan Harrow is Ashley Watkins Professor of French at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research explores the interrelation of French literary modernism and visual culture. Among her monograph publications are The Material, the Real and the Fractured Self (2004) and Zola, the Body Modern ? (2010). She was made Officier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2011 for services to French culture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates Introduction Thinking Colour-Writing Part One Objects and
Affects: Mallarmé's Monochromes Colour Culture Red Bricks and Yellow
Thoughts Making Modern, Moving Colour Displacements of Black Migrations of
Blue White (Im)material Conclusion Part Two Matter, Metaphor,
Metamorphosis: Valéry's Intermittent Colour Valéry, Vanguard and Rear-guard
'Carroty-Red Bits of Fibre' and a Pink-Bristled Toothbrush Thinking Art and
Writing Colour Resisting and Revealing Colour Sense and Sensuousness:
Seascape and Landscape Ekphrasis: Figure and Fruit Chiaroscuro Modulations
Conclusion Part Three Emblematic Chromatics and the Colour of Ethics: Yves
Bonnefoy's Lessons in Things The Dereliction of Colour The Equipoise of
Grey Colour Incarnate Unbiddable Colour: The Ethical Turn Acts of Attention
Ethics and Ekphrastics Interrupted White The Curve of Colour Conclusion
Conclusion: Colour Moving Forward Bibliography Index