Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze
Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze

Author: Thomas Baldwin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 135119321X

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"The possibility of ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual imagery, is fundamental to all writing about art, be it art criticism, theory or a passage in a novel. But there is no consensus concerning how such representation works. Some take it for granted that writing about art can result in a precise match between words and visual images. For others, ekphrasis amounts to a kind of virtuoso rivalry, in which the writer aims to outdo the pictorial image that is being described. In close readings of Diderot, Proust and Deleuze, Thomas Baldwin shows how ekphrasis can create a spectral effect. In other words, ekphrastic spectres do not function as fully present stand-ins for given works of art; nor can they be reduced to the status of passive and absent others. Baldwin also explores the ways in which the works of Diderot, Proust and Deleuze inhabit each other as ghostly influences."

The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze
The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze

Author: Thomas Baldwin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781907625039

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"The possibility of ekphrasis -- the verbal representation of visual imagery -- is fundamental to all writing about art, be it art criticism, theory, or a passage in a novel. But there is no consensus concerning how such representation works. Some take it for granted that writing about art can result in a precise match between words and visual images. For others, ekphrasis amounts to a kind of virtuoso rivalry, in which the writer aims to outdo the pictorial image that is being described. In close readings of Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze, Baldwin shows how ekphrasis can create a 'spectral' effect. In other words, ekphrastic 'spectres' do not function as fully present 'stand-ins' for given works of art; nor can they be reduced to the status of passive or absent others. Baldwin also explores the ways in which the works of Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze inhabit each other as ghostly influences"--Publisher's website.

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism

Author: Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-07-14

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1501367412

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Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to Barthes's death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980). The second part focuses both on the posthumously published material and the legacies of his work after his death in 1980. This later work has attracted attention, for example, in conjunction with notions of the neutral, gay writing, and critiques of everyday life. The third part is devoted to some of the critical vocabulary of Barthes in both the work he published during his lifetime, and that which was published posthumously.

Proust and the Arts
Proust and the Arts

Author: Christie McDonald

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-11-05

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1107103363

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Offers new perspectives on Proust's complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras.

Text and Image in Modern European Culture
Text and Image in Modern European Culture

Author: Natasha Grigorian

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2012-09-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1612492428

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Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this volume explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design (fashion, architecture), hybrid texts (visual poetry, surrealist pocket museums, poetic photo-texts), and text and image relations under the impact of modern technologies (avant-garde experiments, digital poetry). The discussion encompasses pivotal fin de siècle, modernist, and postmodernist works and movements in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Spain. A selected bibliography of work published in the field is also included. The volume will appeal to scholars of comparative literature, art history, and visual studies, and it includes contributions appropriate for supplementary reading in senior undergraduate and graduate seminars.

Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations
Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations

Author: Thomas Baldwin

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2019-09-06

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1789624088

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This book concerns the ‘variations’ operated by Barthes on À la recherche du temps perdu over a period of three decades. It reads the Proustian oeuvre through the prism of Barthes, providing new readings of Proust’s novel and of Barthes’s own writings, and revealing an intricate – and inconsistent – web of references and circulations between the two.

Proust and the Visual
Proust and the Visual

Author: Nathalie Aubert

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2013-01-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0708325491

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This collection of essays is aiming at capturing the rich and complex category of the 'visual' both in Proust's novel itself (in its philosophical and stylistic implications) and beyond it, in other visual practices (cinema, painting, dance) inspired by the novel.

Marcel Proust in Context
Marcel Proust in Context

Author: Adam Watt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-05

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1107021898

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This wide-ranging volume of essays provides an illuminating set of approaches to the multifaceted contexts of Proust's life and work.

Swann at 100 / Swann à 100 ans
Swann at 100 / Swann à 100 ans

Author: Adam Watt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9004302425

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This number of Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, ‘Swann at 100/Swann à 100 ans’, edited by Adam Watt, has its origins in a conference that took place in Exeter, UK, in December 2013 to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Du côté de chez Swann. The articles, in English and French, approach this first volume of A la recherche du temps perdu from various perspectives: there are reception studies, thematic and stylistic studies, as well as contributions to our knowledge of the cultural and intellectual history of the period and, in particular, that annus mirabilis 1913. ‘Swann at 100’ will be an important resource for all readers of the Recherche. Ce numéro de Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui, ‘Swann at 100/Swann à 100 ans’, dirigé par Adam Watt, a ses racines dans un colloque qui eut lieu à Exeter (Angleterre) en décembre 2013 pour fêter le centenaire de la publication de Du côté de chez Swann. Les articles, en français et en anglais, abordent ce premier volume de la Recherche (ainsi que d’autres parties du roman) sous plusieurs perspectives : on y trouve des études de la réception de l’œuvre, des études thématiques et stylistiques, ainsi que des contributions à notre connaissance de l’histoire culturelle et intellectuelle de la période et, en particulier, de cette annus mirabilis 1913. ‘Swann à 100 ans’ sera une ressource considérable pour tout lecteur de la Recherche.