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V. Kapor, Local Colour. A Travelling Concept

V. Kapor, Local Colour. A Travelling Concept

Publié le par Bérenger Boulay (Source : Christian Bieri)

Vladimir Kapor

LOCAL COLOUR. A Travelling Concept

 

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, coll. "Romanticism and after in France " n°13, 2009, VIII-254 p.

  • ISBN: 9783039114153
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Présentation de l'éditeur:

 

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 ‘Rubénistes', 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 Mérimée, 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.

Vladimir Kapor is Lecturer in French at theUniversity of Western Australia. After a Ph.D. thesis completed atLille-3 University (France) and a teaching appointment at theUniversity of Cyprus, he held a two-year postdoctoral researchfellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the authorof “Pour une poétique de l'écriture exotique” (2007) and hascontributed articles on French literature to various journals including“Nineteenth-Century French Studies”, “Eighteenth-Century Studies”,“Word and Image”, “Studi Francesi” and “Poétique”.

 

Sommaire:

A Pictorial Term Gone Astray? – The Rise and Fall of “Couleur Locale” – The Transatlantic Journey.