Textual intersections : literature, history and the arts in nineteenth-century Europe /

"This volume examines the multifaceted ways in which textual material in nineteenth-century European cultures intersected with non-literary cultural artefacts and concepts. The essays consider the presence of such diverse phenomena as the dandy, nationhood, diasporic identity, operatic and dram...

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Other Authors: Langford, Rachael, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 129.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: intertextual, intermedial, intersections / Rachael Langford
  • Figuring the artistic subject: a genealogy of nineteenth-century dandyism / Eduardo Ralickas
  • Monsters and the mob: depictions of the grotesque on the Parisian stage, 1826-1836 / Sarah Hibberd
  • Staging colours: Edward Gordon Craig and Wassily Kandinsky / Birgit Haas
  • Symptoms of epistemological change: intersections with music and the visual arts in the German novel of the long nineteenth century / Gustav Frank
  • How to get past your editor: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Don Juan as a palimpsest / Ricarda Schmidt
  • Fragments and time: aspects of revolutionary change, literature and painting in Spain (1790-1870) / Andrew Ginger
  • Geschichte Wallensteins: Ranke's problem of narrative - and Schiller's solution? / Steffan Davies
  • Generical intersections in nineteenth-century French painting and literature: Manet's La Musique aux Tuileries and Baudelaire's Petits Poemes en prose / David Scott
  • Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere as an allegory of nostalgia / Albert Boime
  • Theatrical intersections: an entry from the Goncourts' Journal, 1 March 1862 / Mairi Liston
  • Literary acrobatics: Edmond de Goncourt's Les Freres Zemgano / Katherine Ashley
  • Decapitation, dissection and symbolic deformity: the crisis of Italian Romanticism: Hugo, Piave and Boito / Deirdre O'Grady
  • The effect of the pre-Raphaelites on the cultural consciousness of D'Annunzio / Giuliana Pieri
  • Jewish motifs in mid-nineteenth century Russian music, art and art criticism / Eda Dobrovetsky
  • Dreaming the myth of 'wholeness': romantic interpretations of ancient Greek music in Greece (1890-1910) / Anastasia Siopsi
  • Proust and the fantastic: metaphor, metamorphosis and the visual arts / Marion Schmid.