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1	The Politics and Poetics of Ekphrasis in Nineteenth-Century French Art Novels Wengier, Sabrina Emilie 01 May 2010 (has links) This dissertation explores how literary descriptions of visual artworks affect the narrative and descriptive fabric of a text. The novels I examine operate on three textual levels: the painter's creative struggles, his amorous entanglements with his model and/or the painted women of his canvas, and his aesthetic claims to revolutionize painting. My project argues that ekphrasis is a translational mode that takes two forms: the traditional, "contained" description of a visual artwork; and a mode of writing that pervades the entire text and emulates the characteristics of painting. For example, Balzac's "Le Chef d'oeuvre inconnu" and the Goncourts' Manette Salomon successfully adopt the ekphrastic mode of writing, transforming the narrative into a canvas where the boundaries between the media are blurred. On the other hand, Zola's L'oeuvre exploits ekphrasis in order to advance the superiority of literature over painting. At the heart of these Realist and Naturalist texts, the fundamental adherence to the mimetic principle of art is confronted with the nonfigurative experiments of their fictional painters. The female body, as the embodiment of Art and the manifestation of the artist's desire, becomes the symptom of his incursion into abstract painting and the site of the resistance to ekphrasis. L'Oeuvre Manette Salomon Abstract Art "Le Chef-d'oeuvre Inconnu" Balzac Goncourt Emile Zola Impressionism Description Of Paintings Ekphrasis
2	Portrait de l'artiste moderne dans Manette Salomon des frères Goncourt et Les Enfants Tanner de Robert Walser Tanasie, Georgiana 08 1900 (has links) No description available. Goncourt Walser Manette Salomon Les Enfants Tanner Artiste Moderne Romantique Volonté Idéal Tempérament Subjectivité Conscience Esthétique The Tanners Artist Modern Romantic Will Ideal Temperament Subjectivity Aesthetics

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The Politics and Poetics of Ekphrasis in Nineteenth-Century French Art Novels

Portrait de l'artiste moderne dans Manette Salomon des frères Goncourt et Les Enfants Tanner de Robert Walser