The Orient of Style : Modernist Allegories of Conversion /

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In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations of literary representation. She demonstrates that through allegory, modernism became a style itself, a...

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Main Author: Schlossman, Beryl, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1991.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Proust, Marcel.
Flaubert, Gustave.
Baudelaire, Charles.
Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922.
Flaubert, Gustave, > 1821-1880.
Baudelaire, Charles, > 1821-1867.
Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922 > Knowledge > Orient.
Flaubert, Gustave, > 1821-1880 > Knowledge > Orient.
Proust, Marcel > 1871-1922
Flaubert, Gustave > 1821-1880
Baudelaire, Charles > 1821-1867
Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922 > Et l'Orient.
Flaubert, Gustave, > 1821-1880 > Et l'Orient.
Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922 > Knowledge.
Flaubert, Gustave, > 1821-1880 > Knowledge.
French literature > Asian influences.
Allegory.
French language > Style.
Exoticism in literature.
Modernism (Literature) > France.
Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century.
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Sprache
Literatur
Französisch
Erzähltechnik
Allegorie
Modernism (Literature)
Literature.
French literature.
Aesthetics, Modern.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
18.25 French literature.
Modernisme (Litterature) > France.
Litterature française > Influence asiatique.
Litterature française > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Orient dans la litterature.
Allegorie.
Français (Langue) > Stylistique.
Exotisme dans la litterature.
Modernisme (Litterature)
Esthetique > 19e siecle.
Litterature française.
Litterature française > 19e siecle.
French literature > 19th century.
Französisch.
Orient > In literature.
France.
Asia > Orient.
Orient > Dans la litterature.
Allegories.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations of literary representation. She demonstrates that through allegory, modernism became a style itself, a style that married the ancient and the modern and that emerged as both a cause and an effect, both an ideal construct and an textual materiality, all symbolized by the Orient-land of style, place of plurality, and site of the coexistence of holy lands. Toward the end of Remembrance of Things Past, t.
Physical Description:1 online resource (309 pages).
ISBN:9780822382997

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