1 option
In the mind's eye : the visual impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin / Alexandra K. Wettlaufer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wettlaufer, Alexandra.
- Series:
- Faux titre ; no. 236.
- Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 236
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
- Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.
- Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.
- Visual perception in literature.
- Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784--Criticism and interpretation.
- Diderot, Denis.
- Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867--Criticism and interpretation.
- Baudelaire, Charles.
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ruskin, John.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Visual Impulse in Prose: Border Crossings and the Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity 9
- Chapter 1 Towards a Visual Discourse: Theories of the Origin of Language, Enargeia, Ekphrasis and Associationism 23
- Chapter 2 Diderot's Visual Prose: Gesture, Hieroglyph and the Visual Imagination 69
- Chapter 3 Baudelaire and the Salons: The Critic as Artist 121
- Chapter 4 Les Paradis Artificiels, Le Surnaturel and the Prose Poem: The Aesthetics of Psychological Flanerie 159
- Chapter 5 Ruskin and the Language of Images 197
- Chapter 6 Ruskin's Moving Images: The Politics and the Poetics of the Paragone 241
- Conclusion: Diderot, Baudelaire, Ruskin: Envisioning Visionaries 293.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-310).
- ISBN:
- 9042010355
- OCLC:
- 52308592
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.