Writing Japonisme : aesthetic translation in nineteenth-century French prose / Pamela A. Genova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Genova, Pamela Antonia, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896--Criticism and interpretation.

Goncourt, Edmond de.

Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907--Criticism and interpretation.

Huysmans, J.-K.

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902--Criticism and interpretation.

Zola, Émile.

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898--Criticism and interpretation.

Mallarmé, Stéphane.

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898.

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902.

Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907.

Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896.

French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

French fiction.

French fiction--19th century--Japanese influences.

Japonism--Influence.

Japonism.

Art and literature--France--History--19th century.

Art and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

France.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 324 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, French visual artists began incorporating Japanese forms into their work. The style, known as Japonisme, spanned the arts. Identifying a general critical move from a literal to a more metaphoric understanding and presentation of Japonisme, Pamela A. Genova applies a theory of "aesthetic translation" to a broad response to Japanese aesthetics within French culture. She crosses the borders of genre, field, and form to explore the relationship of Japanese visual art to French prose writing of the mid- to late 1800s. Writing Japonisme focuses on the work of Edmond de Goncourt, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Émile Zola, and Stéphane Mallarmé as they witnessed, incorporated, and participated in an unprecedented cultural exchange between France and Japan, as both creators and critics. Genova's original research opens new perspectives on a fertile and influential period of intercultural dynamics. Book jacket.

Contents:

Japonisme and the ambivalence of theory

Aesthetic translation: modalities of interdisciplinary and intercultural correspondence

Edmond de Goncourt: portraits of artists

Joris-Karl Huysmans: prose painting and the decadent novel

Emile Zola: writing of and writing with art

Stéphane Mallarmé: staging Japonisme

Japonisme: "a never-ending story"?

Notes:

Includes blbliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810132191

0810132192

9780810132214

0810132214

OCLC:

908991433