| Local Colour: A Travelling Concept Contributor(s): McGuinness, Patrick (Other), Kapor, Vladimir (Author) |
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ISBN: 3039114158 ISBN-13: 9783039114153 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $73.31 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 700.103 |
| LCCN: 2009020510 |
| Series: Romanticism and After in France |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 258 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 'Rub nistes', 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 M rim e, 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. |