Ornament, fantasy, and desire in nineteenth-century French literature /
In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple accessory, raises problems that are at the very heart of aesthetic experience: limits and their transgression, illusion and seduction, pleasure and tensio...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1992]
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Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Part I: Romanticism ; Part II: Symbolism and Decadence ; Conclusion; Appendix.