Imagery and Ideology: Fiction and Painting in Nineteenth-Century France

by William J. Berg

Literature is ostensibly a sequential and thus temporal medium, and painting a static and spatial one; yet writers like George Sand and Emile Zola have attempted repeatedly to represent visual and spatial phenomena in literary texts, just as painters like Eug ne Delacroix and Claude Monet have sought consistently to capture effects of time and movement on canvas. The incorporation of elements from one artistic medium into another creates a dynamic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611493315
• ISBN13: 9781611493313
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 269 Pages