{"product_id":"9781350182202","title":"Colourworks : Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eColourworks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Susan Harrow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do modern writers write colour? How do today's readers respond to the invitation to 'think colour' as they read poetry and art writing, and explore paintings? To what extent can critical thought on colour in visual media illuminate the textual life of colour? These are some of the lines of enquiry pursued in this bold new study of modern poetry and art writing in French, where colour, Susan Harrow argues, is integral to the exploration of ethics, ekphrasis, objects, bodies, landscape and interiority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe question of colour, in a variety of disciplines and media, has provoked debate from Aristotle to Goethe, and from Baudelaire to Derek Jarman. If the past twenty years have witnessed a 'colour turn' in contemporary cultural studies and screen research, colour values in literary and textual media are often elided or, simply, overlooked. \u003ci\u003eColourworks\u003c\/i\u003e tackles this lacuna in the study of modern poetry and art writing in French, revealing the integral role of colour in the work of three iconic French writers in the modern tradition: Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry and Yves Bonnefoy. This book spans the broad modern period from the 1860s to the early twenty-first century in taking an exploratory approach to the visuality of the verbal medium through an adventurous reading of text and image. Harrow uncovers how colour moves and morphs in texts as it challenges the traditionalist containments of chromatic symbolism. Beyond its primary area of investigation in modern poetry and art writing in French, this richly colour-illustrated study has significant interdisciplinary implications-conceptual, methodological, and practical-for the study of visuality in humanities research, from literature studies to material and visual culture studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Starting with Mallarmé's 'monochromes', Susan Harrow takes us on an extended exploration of the colour worlds of modern French poetry, via Valéry's greys down to the complex chromatics of Bonnefoy. Her study is a tour de force.” —\u003ci\u003eChristopher Prendergast FBA, Professor Emeritus of Modern French Literature and Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Through a series of penetrating readings, Susan Harrow sheds fascinating light on the workings of colour when it is mediated through the poet's words. The subtlety of this alchemical process finds eloquent expression in lucid analyses of Mallarmé, Valéry and Bonnefoy. Harrow's interdisciplinary study offers a wealth of insights that prompt us to think anew about the affective, cultural, sensory and theoretical ramifications of colour and the myriad ways in which its textual articulation shapes our world.” —\u003ci\u003eEric Robertson, Professor of Modern French Literary and Visual Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350182202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40793073123534,"sku":"9781350182202","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_2c188359-ef1a-4506-84ab-05fc8111368d.jpg?v=1642402626","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350182202","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}