Signs and Designs: Art and Architecture in the Work of Michel Butor - Softcover

Duffy, Jean H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853237883 ISBN 13: 9780853237884

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2003

Synopsis

In the course of a writing career spanning half a century, Michel Butor has produced a remarkable range and volume of publications, including fiction, travel works, poetry, critical essays and various types of mixed-genre works which resist ready categorisation. Much of this very diverse oeuvre is marked by his life-long passion for the visual arts. This study is the first full-length analysis of the role played by the references to the visual, plastic and architectural arts in Butor’s work. It addresses a wide range of issues including the role of the artwork, building or monument as narrative generator; the reflexive functions of the visual and architectural references; the interaction between visual/architectural references and intertextual citation; the role of collaboration in Butor’s oeuvre; the relationship between cultural baggage and the workings of the unconscious; the tension between Butor’s fascination for non-European artistic traditions and his continuing dialogue with the Western tradition.

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About the Author

Jean H. Duffy is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853237883
• ISBN 13: 9780853237884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310