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Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
By (Author) Rae Beth Gordon
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
840.9007
Hardback
308
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
595g
In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple accessory, raises problems that are at the very heart of aesthetic experience: limits and their transgression, illusion and seduction, pleasure and tension, harmony and confusion, excess and marginality.