Shattering the middle ground
Violence and the imperatives of reportage in Félix Fénéon’s Nouvelles en trois lignes
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 19003498 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Greg Kerr (0000-0001-9515-9425, University of Glasgow, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2019 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 311-331 |
| Data de publicação | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Contemporary French Civilization (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0147-9156 • E-ISSN: 2044-396X |
| Editora | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/cfc.2019.18 |
| OpenAlex | W2930979317 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 10 |
Félix Fénéon’s Nouvelles en trois lignes are a selection of witty and darkly subversive rewritings of news agency reports which he produced for a column appearing in the daily newspaper Le Matin in 1906. Although Fénéon was principally known to belle époque readers for his art criticism, these faits divers are notable for their highly distinctive treatment of the aporia of violence. Situating the Nouvelles en trois lignes in the long wake of the 1894 Procès des Trente, this article firstly explores the subtle ways in which these texts reflect pervasive anxieties about militant anarchism and the extension of criminality into new geographical and social milieux. Secondly, adopting a word-and-image approach, it contends that Fénéon’s implicit emphasis on the difficulty of accounting for violence in verbal terms merits comparison with features of the graphic art of his contemporary Félix Vallotton, arguing that both artist and writer present an acerbic critique of an emergent journalisme d’information and the values of reportorial objectivity
Art · Art history · French Literature and Critical Theory · French Literature and Poetry · Literature and Culture Studies
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |