Peter Collier

Artistic relations : literature and the visual arts in nineteenth-century France

In this innovative volume, literary critics and art historians explore the relationship between literature and the visual arts in 19th-century France. Eighteen leading scholars, including Pierre Bourdieu, Germaine Greer, Segolene Le Men, Roger Cardinal and Mary Ann Caws analyse contemporary forms of representation to reveal the rich variety of factors that link image and text. 19th-century France offers a particularly fertile range of connections between verbal and visual practice. From imaginative writers engaging in art-criticism to transpositions dart between paintings and texts there is a diversity of intersection which goes well beyond mere affinity or analogy. The volume also clearly acknowledges the importance of setting the relationship between writers and painters against the social fabric of the period: from the economic and institutional structures of artistic production in which they worked, to the wider pictorial culture - including photography and printing - of the century. The book owes its origins to the rapid growth of interest in the inter-disciplinary field of cultural studies, and seeks to provide an authoritative but accessible text for students and teachers. It is organised into thematic sub-sections within which different kinds of problem are examined and challenging methodological examples presented. While contributions have been specially commissioned to provide an overview of the field, the stimulating individual views of their authors make them comprehensible and attractive to non-specialists. The book will take its place as the first major work of synthesis on 19th-century French literature and art.

Baudelaire in 1859 : a study in the sources of poetic creativity

Preface 1. Baudelaire at Honfleur 2. Two journeys: Le Voyage and La Chevelure 3. The Protean self: Les Sept Vieillards and Les Petites Vieilles 4. La Belle aux cheveux dor: woman, death and the theatre 5. The lyric explosion: a reading of Le Cygne Conclusion: La Reine des facultes Notes Bibliography Index.

Paul Valéry : poète en prose : la prose lyrique abstraite des Cahiers

Etude des Poemes et petits Poemes abstraits qui refletent la bipolarite de la sensibilite et de lintellect essentielle de V. Nature et precision de quelques unes des caracteristiques de la prose poetique. Mise en evidence de la recherche dun mode different dexpression du moi lie demblee a la puissance de suggestion latente de la langue| et dun processus de condensation par lequel un noyau linguistique tres reduit peut representer lessence de toute une situation ou de toute une experience.