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Rimbaud's Impressionist Poetics

Vision and Visuality. Studies in Visual Culture

Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Wales Press, Wales, United Kingdom
Published: 31st Oct 2012
Dimensions: w 144mm h 223mm d 39mm
Weight: 395g
ISBN-10: 0708325351
ISBN-13: 9780708325353
Barcode No: 9780708325353
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Arthur Rimbaud, the volatile genius of French poetry, invented a language that captured the energy and visual complexity of the modern world. This book explores some of the technical aspects of this language in relation to the new techniques brought forth by the Impressionist painters such as Monet, Morisot, and Pissarro.

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The scope of Rimbaud's Impressionist Poetics is even broader than the title suggests: not only does Aimee Israel-Pelletier demonstrate Rimbaud's affinities with Impressionism, but she also relates him to realism and to the cultural and political climate of late nineteenth-century France, a watershed period in the history of vision and poetry; not only does she deal with Rimbaud's poetics, his theories of vision, but she also reinforces her compelling argument with ample discussion of his poems. Indeed, these incisive analyses illustrate the interaction of the visual and verbal languages at the most basic level, making her book at once comprehensive and concrete. Her argument is consistently lucid and uncluttered, her style straight-forward and jargon-free, resulting in a book that will prove attractive to experts in all of the many fields with which it intersects, yet accessible to the general reading public. In short, this fascinating study is also a great read. William J. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Madison