Research Catalog

Title

Magritte and literature : elective affinities / Ben Stoltzfus.

Author

Stoltzfus, Ben, 1927-

Publication

• Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Description

288 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Subjects

• Painters
• Magritte, René, 1898-1967
• Belgium
• Painters > Belgium
• Magritte, René, 1898-1967 > Criticism and interpretation
• Art and literature
• Literature in art
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "Examines some of the artist's major paintings whose titles were influenced by and related to works of literature."--Provided by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and index.

Contents

Magritte's painterly language : reading, writing, and art-magic -- Toward Surrealism : Baudelaire and Poe -- Lautréamont and Les chants de Maldoror -- Magritte and Jules Verne : Voyages extraordinaires to the center of art -- Laclos and Les liaisons dangereuses : woman, mirrors, and Robbe-Grillet -- Cladel and The tomb of the wrestlers : roses, daggers, and love in interarts discourse -- The glass key : an interarts dialogue : Magritte and Dashiell Hammett -- Dialectical affinities : Hegel, Sade, and Goethe -- Time transfixed : Bergson, Proust, Einstein, and the fourth dimension -- Magritte and Sheherazade : the enchanted domain.

Call Number

JQE 14-148

ISBN

• 9789058679604 (pbk.)
• 9058679608 (pbk.)

OCLC

860753308

Author

Stoltzfus, Ben, 1927- author.

Title

Magritte and literature : elective affinities / Ben Stoltzfus.

Publisher

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and index.

Research Call Number

JQE 14-148