The Object of Art by Marian Hobson
Are works of art imitations? If so, what exactly do they imitate? Should an artist remind his audience that what it is perceiving is in fact artifice, or should he try above all to persuade it to accept the illusion as reality? Questions such as these, which have dominated aesthetic theory since the Greeks, were debated with extraordinary vigour and ingenuity in eighteenth-century France. In this book Dr Hobson analyses these debates, focusing in turn on painting, the novel, drama, poetry and music. In each case she relates theory to contemporary works of art by Watteau, Chardin, Diderot, Beaumarchais, Gluck and many others. She shows that disputes within the theory of each art centred upon the nature of the perceiver's attention. Dr Hobson provides a method of mapping the changes in artistic style which took place as the century advanced. In discussing such conceptual transformations Dr Hobson opens an important perspective for the study of Romanticism and Realism.-
Sartre: Literature and Theory
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Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 17601820
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Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France
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System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida
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The Death of Stephane Mallarme
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Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France
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Tradition and Desire
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Flaubert and the Gift of Speech
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Politeness and its Discontents
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French Renaissance Tragedy
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Pascal and the Arts of the Mind
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Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose
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Genealogies of the Text
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Proust, the Body and Literary Form
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Reading the French Enlightenment
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Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
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Politics and Narratives of Birth
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Reading Paul Valery
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Pictorialist Poetics
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Poetry and Fable
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Sartre and 'Les Temps Modernes'
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The Knowledge of Ignorance
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Irony and Ideology in Rabelais
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Flaubert's Characters
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Leo Spitzer
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Baudelaire and Intertextuality
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Corneille, Classicism and the Ruses of Symmetry
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Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing
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The Limits of Narrative
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Mallarme, Manet and Redon
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Baudelaire in 1859
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Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis
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Claude Simon
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History and Ideology in Proust
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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau
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The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance
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Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel
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Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715
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Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry
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Where Flaubert Lies
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521115025 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521115027 |
| Title | The Object of Art |
| Author | Marian Hobson |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In French |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2009-06-25 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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