9783030193447-3030193446-The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

ISBN-13: 9783030193447
ISBN-10: 3030193446
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Author: Claire Nettleton
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover 255 pages
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ISBN-13: 9783030193447
ISBN-10: 3030193446
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Author: Claire Nettleton
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover 255 pages

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The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature) (ISBN-13: 9783030193447 and ISBN-10: 3030193446), written by authors Claire Nettleton, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Criticism (Arts History & Criticism, Evolution) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature traces the evolution of the relationship between artists and animals in fiction from the Second Empire to the fin de siècle. This book examines examples of visual literature, inspired by the struggles of artists such as Edouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Manette Salomon (1867), Émile Zola’s Therèse Raquin (1867), Jules Laforgue’s “At the Berlin Aquarium” (1895) and “Impressionism” (1883), Octave Mirbeau’s In the Sky (1892-1893) and Rachilde’s L’Animale (1893) depict vanguard painters and performers as being like animals, whose unique vision revolted against stifling traditions. Juxtaposing these literary works with contemporary animal theory (McHugh, Deleuze, Guattari and Derrida), zoo studies (Berger, Rothfels and Lippit) and feminism (Donovan, Adams and Haraway), Claire Nettleton explores the extent to which the nineteenth-century dissolution of the human subject contributed to a radical, modern aesthetic. Utilizing these interdisciplinary methodologies, Nettleton argues that while inducing anxiety regarding traditional humanist structures, the “artist-animal,” an embodiment of artistic liberation within an urban setting, is, at the same time, a paradigmatic trope of modernity.
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