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The Orient of Style. Modernist Allegories of Conversion.
Beryl Schlossman
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Paperback. A study of modernist aesthetics, which attempts to reveal how the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations of literary representation for such writers as Flaubert, Proust and Baudelaire. The author demonstrates how the modernist movement was influenced by Oriental culture and history. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 photographs. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3556. .
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, the narrator describes the act ... Read more
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, the narrator describes the act ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822310945
SKU
V9780822310945
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