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Author Genova, Pamela Antonia, 1961- author.

Title Writing Japonisme : aesthetic translation in nineteenth-century French prose / Pamela A. Genova
Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016

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Contents Preface -- Introduction. Japonisme and the ambivalence of theory -- Prelude. Aesthetic translation : modalities of interdisciplinary and intercultural correspondence -- 1. Edmond de Goncourt : portraits of artists -- 2. Joris-Karl Huysmans : prose painting and the decadent novel -- 3. {acute}Emile Zola : writing of and writing with art -- 4. St{acute}ephane Mallarm{acute}e : staging Japonisme -- Coda. Japonisme : "a never-ending story"?
Summary In her book, Pamela Genova suggests that as critics move in general from a literal to a more metaphoric understanding and presentation of Japonisme, the mutability of the phenomenon is highlighted in a rich and illuminating manner. By exploring the conditions of the creation of these works, accenting the original aims of the artists, the manipulations carried out by art dealers, gallery owners, and boutique managers, as well as the gestures of explanation, interpretation, and judgment offered by the professional and amateur critics, Japonisme takes on an even more versatile nature. Further, a complex web of correspondence germinates among these artists--both French and Japanese--and their many critics. It is in this light that the truly rich character of Japonisme comes forth, since the undesirability, even the impossibility of the attempt to reduce it to a single genre, style, era, or cultural cadre attests to its elusiveness and its Protean nature. Japonisme does not correspond to a single dictionary definition, no matter how subtle or self-aware that definition might be. By situating the dynamics of Japonisme as a response on the part of French culture to the culture of Japan, we gain a keener sense of the multiplicity of modern French sensibility itself, of how the awareness of a nation's language, history, and art forms can be creatively reflected in the images of a culture seemingly radically different from its own
Subject Mallarm{acute}e, St{acute}ephane, 1842-1898 -- Criticism and interpretation
Zola, {acute}Emile, 1840-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation
Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907 -- Criticism and interpretation
Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896 fast
Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907 fast
Goncourt, Edmond de 1822-1896 gnd
Huysmans, Joris-Karl 1848-1907 gnd
Mallarmé, Stéphane 1842-1898 gnd
Zola, Émile 1840-1902 gnd
Subject Art and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century
Japonism.
French fiction -- 19th century -- Japanese influences
French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Art and literature
French fiction
Japonism
Französisch
Japonismus
Literatur
Japanbild
Rezeption
France
Japan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810132207
0810132206