Modernist Allegories of Conversion
by
Beryl Schlossman
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1990
In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations of literary representation. She demonstrates that through allegory, modernism became a style itself,...