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Ornament, Fantasy and Desire in Nineteenth Century French Literature
  
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Ornament, Fantasy and Desire in Nineteenth Century French Literature [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Rae Beth Gordon (Author)
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In this examination of the role of ornament in 19th 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 tension, harmony and confusion, excess and marginality. After placing texts by Nerval, Gautier, Mallarme, Huysmans and Rachilde within the context of the history and techniques of the decorative arts, she reveals in these works the powerful role played by decorative figurations of syntax, diction and composition. Gordon's textual analyses yield spatial parallels within specific ornamental configurations (interlace, arabesque, decorative frame, "horror vacui", trompe l'oeil). These patterns are then studied in relation to a dynamics of desire. Ornament, taken as the site of desire and illuminated by the theories of Charcot, Clerambault, Freud, Winnicott and Lacan, highlights important differences between romanticism, symbolism and decadence. Not only does the author relate ornament to artistic representations of the sublime, the grotesque and hysteria, but she also reveals that the function of ornament in literature anticipated psychiatric and aesthetic research on decorative form in the fin de siecle.

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