Fashioned Texts and Painted Books
Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry
Erin E. Edgington
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
Published: 10/2017
Pages: 212
Subject: Poetry, Literary Criticism
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Print ISBN: 9780000000000
eBook ISBN: 9781469635781
DESCRIPTION
Works in prose and in verse by Octave Uzanne, Guy de Maupassant, and Marcel Proust, along with fan leaves by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Paul Gauguin, serve as points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the complex interplay of text and image that characterizes this occasional subgenre. Through its interrogation of the correspondences between form and content in fan poetry, this study demonstrates that the fan was, in addition to being a ubiquitous fashion accessory, a significant literary and art historical object straddling the boundary between East and West, past and present, and high and low art.