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Colourworks - Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing (Hardcover)
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Colourworks - Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing (Hardcover)
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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.
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