Ben Stoltzfus

Magritte and Literature

Elective Affinities

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Produktbeschreibung

Magritte's interarts dialogue with literature. The Belgian Surrealist artist René Magritte (1898-1967) is well known for his thought-provoking and witty images that challenge the observer's preconditioned perceptions of reality. 'Magritte and Literature' examines some of the artist's major paintings whose titles were influenced by and related to works of literature. Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, Goethe's Elective Affinities, and Poe's The Domain of Arnheim are representative examples of Magritte's interarts dialog with literary figures. Despite these convergences the titles subvert the images in his paintings. It is the two images together that express the aesthetics of Surrealism-for example, the juxtaposition of unrelated objects whose purpose is to spark recognition. Magritte's challenge to representation compares with metafiction's challenge to classic realism, Les Chants de Maldoror for example, and the intersecting space between art and writing, sometimes referred to as the iconotext, manifests itself whenever Magritte borrows a literary title for a painting. His strategy is to paint visible thought, and this reverse ekphrasis, the opposite of a rhetorical description, undermines the written text. When he succeeds, the effect is poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leuven University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9789058679604
• ISBN-10: 9058679608
• Artikelnr.: 39722868

Autorenporträt

Ben Stoltzfus, Edward A. Dickson Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, is an internationally recognized scholar of Chennevière, Gide, Robbe-Grillet, Hemingway, Lacan, Magritte, and Jasper Johns.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 Magritte's Painterly Language: Reading
Writing
and Art-Magic 2 Toward Surrealism: Baudelaire and Poe 3 Lautréamont and Les Chants de Maldoror 4 Magritte and Jules Verne: Voyages extraordinaires to the Center of Art 5 Laclos and Les Liaisons dangereuses: Woman
Mirrors
and Robbe-Grillet 6 Cladel and The Tomb of the Wrestlers: Roses
Daggers
and Love in Interarts Discourse 7 The Glass Key-an Interarts Dialogue: Magritte and Dashiell Hammett 8 Dialectical Affinities: Hegel
Sade
and Goethe 9 Time Transfixed: Bergson
Proust
Einstein
and the Fourth Dimension 10 Magritte and Sheherazade: The Enchanted Domain Conclusion Bibliography Index Gallery with color plates