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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface: Why Fans?
Part One: The Fan in Fin-De-Siècle France
Chapter 1: Fan History: Octave Uzanne and Other Historians of Ubiquity and (F)utility
1.1. West Meets East: A Very Brief Introduction to the Fan
1.2. Octave Uzanne and the Fan
Chapter 2: The Fan Format in the Visual Arts: A Little-Known Favorite of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists
2.1. The Éventail at the Boundary of High and Low Art
2.2. The Fan Leaves of the Fin-de-Siècle
Chapter 3: The Commemorative Functions of Fans
3.1. Accessory to Society
3.2. Souvenirs, Keepsakes, and Livres d’or
3.3. A Fan Fragment
Part Two: Mallarmé
Chapter 4: La Dernière Mode as Precursor to the Éventails
4.1. Vers de circonstance of Consequence
4.2. Fans in La Dernière Mode
Chapter 5: Formal Characteristics of the Éventails: Text and Para-text
5.1. Formal Considerations
5.2. Nonlinearity in the Éventails
Chapter 6: The influence of the Éventails on the Mallarméan Oeuvre
6.1. Ptyx is a Four-Letter Word
6.2. Blank Fans and “Un Coup de Dés”
6.3. Conclusion
Part Three: Claudel
Chapter 7: The Expansion of the Subgenre in Cent Phrases pour éventails: Parallels Between Mallarméan and Claudelian Fan Poetry
Chapter 8: Plastic Poetry: Formal Characteristics of the Phrases
8.1. The Processes of Poetry
8.2. Named and Unnamed Éventails
8.3. The Sounds of Silence
Chapter 9: From Concrete Poetry to the Artist’s Book
9.1. Creating the Text-Object
9.2. Conclusion
Chapter 10: The Fan: Between the Ideal and the Real
10.1. A Final Fan
10.2. A Final Image
Bibliography
Index
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