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Local Colour

A Travelling Concept

Vladimir Kapor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2009
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03911-415-3 (ISBN)

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Local colour is an undertheorized notion. Although the expression itself is nowadays used in everyday speech in both French and English, its 'domestication' only further highlights the need for a clarifying study of this concept, which has come to be crucial in aesthetic debates. From the seventeenth-century rift between 'Poussinistes' and 'Rubénistes', to the genesis of Romanticist aesthetic theories in early nineteenth-century France, to the North American regionalist prose of the Local colour movement; from Roger de Piles, to Benjamin Constant, Victor Hugo, Prosper Mérimée, and Hamlin Garland, this book sets out to map for the first time couleur locale's three-hundred-year journey across centuries, languages and genres. In addition to proposing a genealogy of the concept and the paths of its semantic evolution, it also initiates a reflection on the factors that could have prompted the mobility of the term across cultures, art forms and their metalanguages.

The Author: Vladimir Kapor is Lecturer in French at the University of Western Australia. After a Ph.D. thesis completed at Lille-3 University (France) and a teaching appointment at the University of Cyprus, he held a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Pour une poétique de l’écriture exotique (2007) and has contributed articles on French literature to various journals including Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Word and Image, Studi Francesi and Poétique.

Contents: A Pictorial Term Gone Astray? - The Rise and Fall of Couleur Locale - The Transatlantic Journey.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.9.2009
Reihe/Serie	Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France ; 13
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
Schlagworte	Colour • Concept • Exoticism • Hardcover, Softcover / Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • Kapor • Local • McGuinness • Painting Theory • Patrick • Text and Image • The Colour Movement • Travelling • Vladimir
ISBN-10	3-03911-415-8 / 3039114158
ISBN-13	978-3-03911-415-3 / 9783039114153
Zustand	Neuware