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Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the reception of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan's suitability as a substrate for verse, deriving from its myriad associations with coquetry and sex, flight, air, and breath. Close readings of Stephane Mallarme's eventails of the 1880s and 1890s and Paul Claudel's Cent phrases pour eventails (1927) consider both text and paratext as they underscore the significant visual interest of this poetry.

Works in prose and in verse by Octave Uzanne, Guy de Maupassant, and Marcel Proust, along with fan leaves by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Paul Gauguin, serve as points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the complex interplay of text and image that characterizes this occasional subgenre. Through its interrogation of the correspondences between form and content in fan poetry, this study demonstrates that the fan was, in addition to being a ubiquitous fashion accessory, a significant literary and art historical object straddling the boundary between East and West, past and present, and high and low art.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Series Info, Half Title, Editorial Committee, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 9-14
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  1. Preface: Why Fans?
  2. pp. 15-20
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  1. Part One: The Fan in Fin-de-Siècle France
  2. pp. 21-22
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  1. Chapter 1: Fan History: Octave Uzanne and Other Historians of Ubiquity and (F)utility
  2. pp. 23-50
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  1. Chapter 2: The Fan Format in the Visual Arts: A Little-Known Favorite of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists
  2. pp. 51-72
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  1. Chapter 3: The Commemorative Functions of Fans
  2. pp. 73-92
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  1. Part Two: Mallarmé
  1. Chapter 4: La Dernière Mode as Precursor to the Éventails
  2. pp. 95-106
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  1. Chapter 5: Formal Characteristics of the Éventails: Text and Para-text
  2. pp. 107-122
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  1. Chapter 6: The influence of the Éventails on the Mallarméan Oeuvre
  2. pp. 123-140
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  1. Part Three: Claudel
  1. Chapter 7: The Expansion of the Subgenre in Cent Phrases pour éventails: Parallels Between Mallarméan and Claudelian Fan Poetry
  2. pp. 143-150
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  1. Chapter 8: Plastic Poetry: Formal Characteristics of the Phrases
  2. pp. 151-172
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  1. Chapter 9: From Concrete Poetry to the Artist’s Book
  2. pp. 173-188
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  1. Chapter 10: The Fan: Between the Ideal and the Real
  2. pp. 189-200
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 201-204
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 205-210
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  1. Further Series Titles
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