Representational Strategies in Les Misérables and Selected Drawings by Victor Hugo: An Intermedial Comparison [Hardcover]

James M. Phillips (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1999 | ISBN-10: 0820444413 | ISBN-13: 978-0820444413

This book considers the interplay between art and literature by comparing representation techniques in passages from Les Misrables with artistic techniques in selected drawings by Victor Hugo. In both his artistic and literary production, Hugo uses a composite representational strategy that blends verbal and visual elements--attempting to break free of textual and pictorial media constraints. His dual interest in text and image foreshadows contemporary expressive production, which now dominates communication.

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Review

"In this comprehensive study of Victor Hugo's dessins, James Phillips goes beyond a careful analysis and typology of the different graphic works. His book has the merit of insisting on the exceptional nature of the materials and of explaining why and how Victor Hugo was radically breaking with the tradition of his time. The reader should thus not be surprised that this young researcher-himself an innovative specialist of the new technologies-has been able to recognize in Victor Hugo the prophet of our new multimedia visual calligraphy." -- Jean-Jacques Thomas, Duke University

Product Details

• Hardcover: 172 pages
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0820444413
• ISBN-13: 978-0820444413
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,347,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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