Mallarmé, Manet and Redon
Visual and Aural Signs and the Generation of Meaning

This study, first published in 1986, examines the many facets of Mallarmés relationship to the visual arts.

Penny Florence (Author)

9780521114585, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 June 2009

188 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1 cm, 0.31 kg

This study, first published in 1986, is an examination of the many facets of Mallarmés relationship to the visual arts. Dr Florence proceeds by analysing Mallarmés writing on painting and literature, and its bearing on specific paintings, lithographs, and poems. These analyses reveal and define important common structures and innovatory developments, the coherence of which is masked by conventional histories of art. A new relationship is revealed between the word and the image, which has significant implications for an understanding of the self and the world in these texts. The book is particularly original in two respects: first, it shows how developments in verbal and visual innovation are interdependent in Mallarmés work; second, it integrates hitherto discrete traditions of the avant-garde in painting to present a new perspective on the history of modernism.

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. A new problematic of the imaginary
3. Self-sign world
4. 'Un Coup de Des' as illustrated poem
5. Gender-in-signification
6. Concluding notes. A new conception of the real
Appendix: list of illustrations with notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]