Edgington, Erin E.,

Fashioned texts and painted books : nineteenth-century French fan poetry / by Erin E. Edgington. - Chapel Hill : Department of Romance Studies, The University of North Carolina, (c)2017. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press - 1 online resource (209 pages) - North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; number 312 North Carolina series on Romance langauges and literatures .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 dernière mode as precursor to the éventails -- Formal characteristics of the éventails: text and para-text -- The influence of the éventails on the Mallarméan œuvre -- The expansion of the subgenre in cent phrases pour éventails: parallels between Mallarméan 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.



9781469635781


Fans--History--France--19th century.
Fan painting, French--History--19th century.
Decoration and ornament--History--France--19th century.


Electronic Books.

NK4870 / .F374 2017