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Author Genova, Pamela Antonia, 1961- author.

Title Writing Japonisme : aesthetic translation in nineteenth-century French prose / Pamela A. Genova.

Publication Info. 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. Emile Zola : writing of and writing with art -- 4. Stephane Mallarme : 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.
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Subject Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898.
Criticism and interpretation.
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902.
Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907.
Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896.
Goncourt, Edmond de 1822-1896.
Huysmans, Joris-Karl 1848-1907.
Mallarmé, Stéphane 1842-1898.
Zola, Émile 1840-1902.
Art and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Art and literature.
France.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Japonism.
Japonism.
French fiction -- 19th century -- Japanese influences.
French fiction.
French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
History.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Japan.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Genova, Pamela Antonia, 1961- Writing Japonisme. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016 9780810132191 0810132192 (DLC) 2015035071 (OCoLC)908991433
ISBN 9780810132207 (electronic book)
0810132206 (electronic book)
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