Fashioned Texts and Painted Books Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry / by Erin E. Edgington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edgington, Erin E., author.

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 312.

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 312

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decoration and ornament--France--History--19th century.

Decoration and ornament.

Fan painting, French--History--19th century.

Fan painting, French.

Fans--France--History--19th century.

Fans.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages, 2017.

Summary:

Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the reception of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan's suitability as a substrate for verse, deriving from its myriad associations with coquetry and sex, flight, air, and breath. Close readings of Stephane Mallarme's eventails of the 1880s and 1890s and Paul Claudel's Cent phrases pour eventails (1927) consider both text and paratext as they underscore the significant visual interest of this poetry. 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.

Contents:

Fan history: Octave Uzanne and other historians of ubiquity and (f)utility

The fan format in the visual arts: a little-known favorite of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists

The commemorative functions of fans

La derniere mode as precursor to the eventails

Formal characteristics of the eventails: text and para-text

The influence of the eventails on the Mallarmean oeuvre

The expansion of the subgenre in cent phrases pour eventails: parallels between Mallarmean and Claudelian fan poetry

Plastic poetry: formal characteristics of the phrases

From concrete poetry to the artist's book

The fan: between the ideal and the real.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908555-0-3

979-88-908555-1-0

1-4696-3578-X

OCLC:

1008567179