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Local Colour: A Travelling Concept

Local Colour: A Travelling Concept

Kapor, Vladimir
McGuinness, Patrick

Paperback

Series: Romanticism and After in France / Le Romantisme Et Après En, Book 13

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3039114158
ISBN13: 9783039114153
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Sep 15 2009
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Local colour is an undertheorized notion. Although the expression itself is nowadays used in everyday speech in both French and English, its 'domestication' only further highlights the need for a clarifying study of this concept, which has come to be crucial in aesthetic debates. From the seventeenth-century rift between 'Poussinistes' and 'Rubénistes', to the genesis of Romanticist aesthetic theories in early nineteenth-century France, to the North American regionalist prose of the Local colour movement; from Roger de Piles, to Benjamin Constant, Victor Hugo, Prosper Mérimée, and Hamlin Garland, this book sets out to map for the first time couleur locale's three-hundred-year journey across centuries, languages and genres. In addition to proposing a genealogy of the concept and the paths of its semantic evolution, it also initiates a reflection on the factors that could have prompted the mobility of the term across cultures, art forms and their metalanguages.

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