Local colour
Subtitle: a travelling concept
By: Vladimir Kapor.
Series: Romanticism and after in France -- 13
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039114153
Subjects: Situation (Philosophy); Local color in literature; Aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A pictorial term gone astray; title: Point of origin : shifting ground; title: The original matrix : Roger de Piles : theories on colouring; title: Aerial perspective reclaimed; title: Couleur locale after de piles; title: First literary use of the term; title: The distance transversed; title: Conditions of acceptance; title: The rise and fall of couleur locale; title: Local colour revisited; title: Enlisting local colour; title: The topos of two local colours; title: Crossing over; title: A pictorial interlude; title: The demise of couleur locale; title: Transatlantic journey; title: Local color and regionalism; title: Probing the link; title: Local color and americanism; title: From indigenism to exoticism; title: Contemporary uses and reuses of local color.