Rimbaud's impressionist poetics: vision and visuality
In the early 1870s, Arthur Rimbaud, indisputable genius of French poetry, invented a new style that captured the energy and visual complexity of modern life, changing fundamentally the way subsequent poetry would be written. At the same time in Paris and London, impressionist painters were revolutionizing the way art was produced, exhibited, viewed, and discussed. This book places Rimbaud's radical poetic experiments alongside the equally disruptive experiments of impressionist painters and adv…
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- Full title :Rimbaud's impressionist poetics : vision and visuality / Aimée Israel-Pelletier.
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In the early 1870s, Arthur Rimbaud, indisputable genius of French poetry, invented a new style that captured the energy and visual complexity of modern life, changing fundamentally the way subsequent poetry would be written. At the same time in Paris and London, impressionist painters were revolutionizing the way art was produced, exhibited, viewed, and discussed. This book places Rimbaud's radical poetic experiments alongside the equally disruptive experiments of impressionist painters and advances the argument that impressionism's laissez-faire ideology helps explain Rimbaud's decision to abandon poetry for commerce -- Provided by the publisher.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Wales Press
- Place of Publication:Cardiff
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 201 pages ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780708325353, 0708325351
- oclc:ocn812570401
- LC Classification:PQ2387.R5
- Dewey Decimal:841/.8
Table of Contents
1. Language and visual realism in the poésies -- 2. Unsettled terrain: realism and impressionism 1860s-1870s -- 3. Impressionism and the New Look -- 4. Vision, visuality, affect -- 5. After poetry.
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