Ornament, fantasy, and desire in nineteenth-century French literature /

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 tensio...

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Author / Creator: Gordon, Rae Beth, 1940- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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