This essay explores Stephen Crane’s first volume of poetry, Th e Black Riders and Other Lines, as an aesthetic and cultural paradox of the American 1890s: a dense work where a contemporary and international vanguard movement of revolt and rejection in the visual and literary arts overlapped with a sacred tradition of firm achievements, accepted beliefs, and richly elaborated forms on Protestant soil. As such, Th e Black Riders stands as a striking example of the interaction of literature and visual culture. This is closely probed in two poems that enjoyed an original and arresting intersemiotic translation – two black and white designs by Mélanie Norton, a young woman artist whose “weirdly imaginative power” contributed to visualize the “unique imaginings” and the “enormous repudiations” of Crane’s work.

“They make me see pictures”. La poesia di Stephen Crane tra arte verbale e cultura visuale

Nori, Giuseppe
2019-01-01

Abstract

This essay explores Stephen Crane’s first volume of poetry, Th e Black Riders and Other Lines, as an aesthetic and cultural paradox of the American 1890s: a dense work where a contemporary and international vanguard movement of revolt and rejection in the visual and literary arts overlapped with a sacred tradition of firm achievements, accepted beliefs, and richly elaborated forms on Protestant soil. As such, Th e Black Riders stands as a striking example of the interaction of literature and visual culture. This is closely probed in two poems that enjoyed an original and arresting intersemiotic translation – two black and white designs by Mélanie Norton, a young woman artist whose “weirdly imaginative power” contributed to visualize the “unique imaginings” and the “enormous repudiations” of Crane’s work.
2019
Firenze University Press
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https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/10998
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