{"product_id":"fashioned-texts-and-painted-books-nineteenth-century-french-fan-poetry-9781469635774","title":"Fashioned Texts and Painted Books: Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFashioned Texts and Painted Books\u003c\/i\u003e examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the reception of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan's suitability as a substrate for verse, deriving from its myriad associations with coquetry and sex, flight, air, and breath. Close readings of Stéphane Mallarmé's \u003ci\u003eéventails\u003c\/i\u003e of the 1880s and 1890s and Paul Claudel's \u003ci\u003eCent phrases pour éventails\u003c\/i\u003e (1927) consider both text and paratext as they underscore the significant visual interest of this poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorks in prose and in verse by Octave Uzanne, Guy de Maupassant, and Marcel Proust, along with fan leaves by Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Paul Gauguin, serve as points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the complex interplay of text and image that characterizes this occasional subgenre. Through its interrogation of the correspondences between form and content in fan poetry, this study demonstrates that the fan was, in addition to being a ubiquitous fashion accessory, a significant literary and art historical object straddling the boundary between East and West, past and present, and high and low art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin E. Edgington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unc Department of Romance Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469635774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErin E. Edgington is lecturer at the University of Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unc Department of Romance Studies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115626258547,"sku":"9781469635774","price":110.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_0e8fd67a-8d9a-4fbe-b181-e11804cca21d.jpg?v=1781787763","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/fashioned-texts-and-painted-books-nineteenth-century-french-fan-poetry-9781469635774","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}