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  1. Declining the stereotype
    ethnicity and representation in French cultures
    Author: Rosello, Mireille
    Published: ©1998
    Publisher:  University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H.

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  2. Dice, Cards, Wheels
    A Different History of French Culture
    Author: Kavanagh, Thomas M.
    Published: [2005]

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    ISBN: 9780812202458
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    Series: Critical Authors and Issues
    Subjects: Spiel; Gambling / France / History; Gambling in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Gokken; Kansspelen; Literatur; Spielleidenschaft; Gambling; Spielsucht; Geschichte; Französisch; Spielsucht; Literatur
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    Kavanagh argues that the history of gambling as a cultural practice provides new and important insights into how French culture has responded to the challenge of understanding what identity, responsibility, and freedom can mean in a world ruled largely by chance
  3. J. J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words
    Author: Friedlander, Eli
    Published: [2004]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    ISBN: 9780674418134; 9780674418080
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Französische Literatur; Rêveries du promeneur solitaire (Rousseau)
    Other subjects: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778): Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire
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    Friedlander's book provides an afterlife for the Reveries in modern philosophy. It constitutes an alternative to the analytic tradition's revival of Rousseau, primarily through Rawls's influential vision of the social contract. It also counters the fate of Rousseau's writings in the continental tradition, determined by and large by Derrida's deconstruction

    Eli Friedlander reads Rousseau's autobiography, Reveries of the Solitary Walker, as philosophy. Reading this work against Descartes's Meditations, Friedlander shows how Rousseau's memorable transformation of experience through writing opens up the possibility of affirming even the most dejected state of being and allows the emergence of the innocence of nature out of the ruins of all social attachments. In tracing the re-creation of a human subject in reverie, Friedlander is alive to the very form of the experience of reading the Reveries by showing the ways this work needs to--and in effect does--generate a reader, without betraying Rousseau's utter solitude. Friedlander's book provides an afterlife for the Reveries in modern philosophy. It constitutes an alternative to the analytic tradition's revival of Rousseau, primarily through Rawls's influential vision of the social contract. It also counters the fate of Rousseau's writings in the continental tradition, determined by and large by Derrida's deconstruction. Friedlander's reading of the Reveries, a work that has fascinated generations of readers, is an incomparable introduction to one of the greatest thinkers in Western culture
  4. Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print
    Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime
    Author: Noland, Carrie
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

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    ISBN: 9780231538640
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    Series: Modernist Latitudes
    Subjects: African diaspora in literature; Französische Literatur; Negritude (Literary movement); LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; French poetry; French poetry; Négritude; Postkolonialismus; Französisch; Literatur
    Other subjects: Césaire, Aimé (1913-2008); Damas, Léon-Gontran (1912-1978)
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  5. Reading an Erased Code
    Romantic Religion and Literary Aesthetics in France
    Author: Despland, Michel
    Published: [2019]; © 1994
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    The end of the eighteenth century, an age of political and cultural crisis particularly in France, saw a shift in the meaning of belief. Simply put, a break in continuity occurred between the old, religious and a new, literary reading of Scripture.... more

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    The end of the eighteenth century, an age of political and cultural crisis particularly in France, saw a shift in the meaning of belief. Simply put, a break in continuity occurred between the old, religious and a new, literary reading of Scripture. Michel Despland selects five writers who were caught up in this new reading of the old religious text and who came to write about religion in innovative ways: Jean-Jacques Roussean, François-René de Chateaubriand, Charles Nodier, Alfred de Vigny, and Gérard de Nerval. Their use of the autobiographical voice, and of a range of literary devices that encouraged the distanciation of readers from what they read, brought about a profound transmutation of religious writing. The old code of orthodoxy -- what was traditionally believed and socially confirmed -- was replaced with a more readable, personal text. The five writers treated by Despland helped shape a broader definition of belief, on that included individual sensibility. The works they produced are, in a sense, new religious texts. They did not just restate or reinterpret the code, but achieved a new kind of narrative, which has become dominant in the modern era and has shaped individual relationships to all codes

     
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    ISBN: 9781487575595
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    Series: Heritage
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Christianity in literature; French literature; Romanticism; Französisch; Romantik; Religion; Literatur
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  6. Allusion
    A Literary Graft
    Author: Pasco, Allan H.
    Published: [2019]; © 1994
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Since Julia Kristeva first coined the term 'intertextuality,' explanations of the way literature incorporates other literature have produced few distinctions and much obscurity. In contrast, Allan H. Pasco's Allusion looks at the way allusion works... more

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    Since Julia Kristeva first coined the term 'intertextuality,' explanations of the way literature incorporates other literature have produced few distinctions and much obscurity. In contrast, Allan H. Pasco's Allusion looks at the way allusion works in specific fictions and how it affects the process of reading. Drawing from a wide range of French authors, including Flaubert, Stendhal, Proust, Balzac, Zola, Sartre, and Robbe-Grillet, Pasco uses a number of examples to show how allusions work, how texts integrate other texts to create new metaphorical constructs.The text being read reminds us of another text, and the two texts come together to create an image (or text) quite different from either of the constituent texts. While distinguishing allusion from other forms of intertextuality like irony, satire, plagiarism, and imitation, Pasco follows a straightforward logic from the uncomplicated to the complicated, from the simple to the complex. What he calls parallel allusions serve to contrast with other devices and to clarify the way allusion functions. He discusses how the perception of irony may distort understanding, and he illustrates how allusion can illuminate a theme and render a feeling palpable. A discussion of 'allusive complex' considers the way a set of parallel allusions work together to create something that differs significantly from both the text being read and the works it refers to. The device appears even more complicated when authors call on it set up oppositions, in some cases to imply that the work in hand might end different from the older text. The potential allusion remains as unlimited as the creative minds of authors, but the pattern, as Pasco demonstrates, remains simple and straightforward

     
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    ISBN: 9781487577766
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    Series: Heritage
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Allusions in literature; French literature; French literature; Französisch; Anspielung; Literatur
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  7. The Unfinished Enlightenment
    Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia
    Author: Stalnaker, Joanna
    Published: [2011]; © 2011
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of... more

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    In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the mid-nineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration-rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields-has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse. As a result, we have neglected some of the most original and experimental works of the eighteenth century

     
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    ISBN: 9780801462344
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    Subjects: Europe; Literary Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Description (Rhetoric); Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French; Enlightenment; Enlightenment; French literature; Natural history; Natural history; Aufklärung; Französisch; Enzyklopädie; Naturwissenschaften; Geistesleben; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (256 pages), 5 halftones
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  8. Francois Villon
    Complete Poems
    Contributor: Sargent-Baur, Barbara (Publisher)
    Published: [2019]; © 1994
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Francois Villon was the last of the great medieval poets, as important in his own, more limited, sphere as Chaucer or Dante. His fame surpasses that of any other medieval French lyricist in spite of the modest quantity, uneven quality, and often... more

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    Francois Villon was the last of the great medieval poets, as important in his own, more limited, sphere as Chaucer or Dante. His fame surpasses that of any other medieval French lyricist in spite of the modest quantity, uneven quality, and often repellent subject-matter of his work. His poems are largely autobiographical, and are rich in their descriptions of thefts, fights, nocturnal prowling, imprisonment, and exile. However, as Barbara Sargent-Baur points outs, when Villon's work is good, it is very good, indeed unforgettable. His two major works are the Lais, a series of bequests in anticipation of his prudent departure from Paris, and Testament, which is about his primary topic, himself. There have been many translations of Villon's work into many languages, including English, but this is the first edition of the whole of the corpus utilizing a re-reading of all the manuscript sources and presenting for each poem a single-source text with all emendations accounted for. It is also the first annotated English version based on the best-text principle and respecting both Villon's meaning and his metrics. A modern edition of the French texts is presented beside the English on facing pages. In an extensive commentary, Sargent-Baur identifies the poet's literary and historical allusions, as well as place-names, legatees, and biographical data

     
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    Contributor: Sargent-Baur, Barbara (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9781487585815
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    Series: Heritage
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
    Scope: 1 online resource (360 pages)
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  9. La Littérature Occitane du Moyen Age
    Bibliographie Sélective et Critique
    Author: Taylor, Robert A.
    Published: [2019]; © 1977
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    In La Littèrature occitance Professor Taylor has resumed in the form of a bibliography all the information normally controlled by a specialist in Old Occitan (Old Provençal) studies. There are close to 900 separate annotated entries, including both... more

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    In La Littèrature occitance Professor Taylor has resumed in the form of a bibliography all the information normally controlled by a specialist in Old Occitan (Old Provençal) studies. There are close to 900 separate annotated entries, including both the lyric and the non-lyric productions of the Old Occitan writers and their medieval and modern critics. The scope is literary rather than linguistic and the listings are primarily of critical material written since 1950, except where an earlier work is clearly of basic importance. It is both more complete and more up to date than other troubador or occitan bibliographies, many of which are in any case now unobtainable. It provides basic groundwork for students of Old Occitan and troubadour literature by collecting in one place information which is otherwise widely scattered. It will be of assistance to specialists in the field. It also makes accessible to scholars in related fields a subject which may be unfamiliar to them

     
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    Language: French
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    ISBN: 9781487583941
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    Series: Heritage
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Altokzitanisch; Geschichte; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (184 pages)
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  10. The Universal Self
    A study of Paul Valery
    Author: MacKay, Agnes
    Published: [2019]; © 1961
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Paul Valéry was one of the most brilliant and subtle thinkers of his time. His work sums up the traditions of classical French poetry and carries it to its highest perfection: the fine flower of an intellectual civilisation.In The Universal Self Miss... more

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    Paul Valéry was one of the most brilliant and subtle thinkers of his time. His work sums up the traditions of classical French poetry and carries it to its highest perfection: the fine flower of an intellectual civilisation.In The Universal Self Miss Mackay examines Valéry's achievement, both as poet and creative thinker, placing him in the environment of literary life in Paris; tracing the development of his thought, from his early friendship with Mallarmé to the years when his genius was widely acknowledged. She shows how Valéry's interest in scientific techniques led him to evolve a system of thought, analogous to the methods of higher mathematics, to elucidate the workings of the mind, from which arose his conception of Pure Self - the essential theme of his poetry. The symbolism of his poems is analysed and shown to be constant and coherent, in harmony with the subtle orchestration of his verse; and the validity of his psychology is considered in relation to the philosophical trends of the period.Rather than following conventional lines of biography, this book is a biography if ideas, in accordance with Valéry's theory that ideas are more important than events in the life of a poet

     
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    ISBN: 9781487578084
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
    Other subjects: Valéry, Paul (1871-1945)
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  11. Balzac's Recurring Characters
    Author: Pugh, Anthony R.
    Published: [2019]; © 1974
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    There has never been an accurate, comprehensive account of the origin, development, and significance of Balzac's use of recurring characters in the many volumes of the Comedie humaine, although the device is well recognized and such a study has long... more

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    There has never been an accurate, comprehensive account of the origin, development, and significance of Balzac's use of recurring characters in the many volumes of the Comedie humaine, although the device is well recognized and such a study has long been deemed essential by Balzac scholars. One cannot read far in the Comedie without encountering characters whom one has met in other novels. Balzac did not introduce recurring characters until after he had written thirty of forty stories, but he kept revising his work from one printing or edition to the next so that earlier stories have as many of the recurring characters as the later ones. Professor Pugh traces the use of the device and unravels its complexities over the whole of Balzac's career by providing a year-by-year account of the author's struggles between 1829 and 1847 to unify his fictional world of some 3,000 characters. This study illuminates the genesis of several novels and sheds totally new light on the validity of the device, by enabling us for the first time to distinguish between examples which belong to the original creative urge, and those introduced during later revisions. The book takes into account the most recent studies of individual Balzac novels, and is unique in the range and thoroughness of its investigation. All serious students of Balzac will need to consult this reference work

     
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    ISBN: 9781487579661
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Characters and characteristics in literature; Literarische Gestalt; Umgestaltung; Person
    Other subjects: Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850): La comédie humaine; Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850)
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  12. Realism and Revolution
    Balzac, Stendhal, Zola and the Performances of History
    Author: Petrey, Sandy
    Published: [2018]; © 1989
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Sandy Petrey here looks at the emergence of nineteenth-century French realism in the light of the concept of speech acts as defined by J. L. Austin and as exemplified by the history of the French Revolution. Through analysis of the techniques of... more

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    Sandy Petrey here looks at the emergence of nineteenth-century French realism in the light of the concept of speech acts as defined by J. L. Austin and as exemplified by the history of the French Revolution. Through analysis of the techniques of representation in works by Balzac, Stendhal, and Zola, Petrey suggests that the expression of a truth depends on the same collective forces necessary to change a regime.According to Petrey, political legitimacy in the Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration was established by means of a series of demonstrations that what words say cannot be interpreted without reference to the community to which they speak. Petrey first discusses the creation of France's National Assembly in 1789 as a foundational example of how speech acts can bring about historical transformation. He then challenges the most powerful twentieth-century assault on realist aesthetics, Roland Barthes's S/Z, and also considers the views of such contemporary critics as Jacques Derrida, Barbara Johnson, and Stanley Fish. During the Revolution, Petrey says, statements of truth were not descriptions of what was, but rather exhortations to produce what was not. Nineteenth-century French fiction represents in literary form a similar collectively authorized linguistic performance; the "real" in realism comes from representing facts not as they are in themselves but as they are produced and rejected in society. In the course of illuminating readings of three central realist works-Balzac's Pere Goriot, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, and Zola's Germinal-Petrey takes the position that the dilemmas of representation, far from being one of realism's blind spots, figure among its major narrative subjects

     
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    ISBN: 9781501724411
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    Subjects: West European History; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; French fiction; Historical fiction, French; Realism in literature; Realismus; Revolution <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Zola, Émile (1840-1902); Zola, Émile (1840-1902): Germinal; Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850); Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850): Le père Goriot; Stendhal (1783-1842); Stendhal (1783-1842): Le rouge et le noir
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  13. A Pagan hero
    an interpretation of Mersault in Camus' "The Stranger"
    Author: Champigny, Robert
    Published: [1969]; © 1969
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

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  14. The Sixth Sense
    Individualism in French Poetry, 1686-1760
    Author: Finch, Robert
    Published: [2019]; © 1966
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    It has long been the custom to condemn eighteenth-century French poetry outright as generally unworthy of attention. However, in keeping with a recent change of attitude towards this vast and diverse body of literature, Professor Finch here... more

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    It has long been the custom to condemn eighteenth-century French poetry outright as generally unworthy of attention. However, in keeping with a recent change of attitude towards this vast and diverse body of literature, Professor Finch here undertakes to isolate a certain group of poets, belonging to the first half of the century, who may appropriately be called individualistes and who are in various ways characteristic of a definite and important trend of their time. The authors he has chosen were selected from the larger group of individualists because each provides, in addition to his poems, a complete statement of his own conception of poetry and of that conception which is common to the group as a whole. Since the works treated are comparatively unfamiliar the author has considered them from a historical and an analytical as well as a critical point of view. In addition he has devoted three special chapters to a literary historian (Evrard Titon du Tillet) and to three critical theorists (Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Yves-Marie André, and Charles Batteux) whose contemporary writings, while they may or may not have influenced the poets here examined, support, reflect, or confirm their ideas and practice. Texts of these poets are not easily available and the numerous representative "ations from the poems given in this book will be welcomed by the reader

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; French poetry; French poetry; Individualism; Lyrik; Individualismus; Französisch
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  15. The Narcissistic Text
    A Reading of Camus' Fiction
    Author: Fitch, Brian
    Published: [2019]; © 1982
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Critics, theologians, philosophers, and psychoanalysts have written several thousand books, theses, and articles about Camus' fiction. His first published novel, L'Etranger, had a unique impact on a whole generation of readers, and is other fiction,... more

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    Critics, theologians, philosophers, and psychoanalysts have written several thousand books, theses, and articles about Camus' fiction. His first published novel, L'Etranger, had a unique impact on a whole generation of readers, and is other fiction, although not as well known, has also been influential. However, Camus' fiction so far has not been judged by contemporary critical methods, and 'inter-textuality,' or the study of the interrelationship between Camus' own texts, has not been examined. The Narcissistic Text: A Reading of Camus' Fiction is the first book devoted to the whole of Camus' fiction to adopt this approach. Brian Fitch uses the critical tools elaborated in the writings of such French formalists as Barthes, Ricardou, and Todorov and draws upon the hermeneutic theory of literature developed by Gadamer and Ricoeur. As a result, the self-generating word-play or linguistic narcissism of 'Jonas' and the textual narcissism of La Peste are seen to give way, in L'Etranger, to a situation where the hermeneutic circle is itself contained within the circularity of autoreprésentation. As for the narcissism of La Chute, it concerns the reader himself, since what the text provides is a model of the hermeneutic process. Fitch thus demonstrates that Camus' fiction occupies a significant place in modern literature. This volume will be of particular interest to those involved in Camus studies or concerned with contemporary critical methodology and literary theory

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Prosa; Narzissmus <Motiv>; Roman
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  16. The Rhetoric of Valéry's Prose Aubades
    Author: Franklin, Ursula R.
    Published: [2019]; © 1979
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    While Paul Valéry's lyric poetry, as well as his dialogues, dramatic work, and critical prose, have preoccupied his critics, his prose poems have been virtually ignored and his position in the tradition of the genre has remained unacknowledged. This... more

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    While Paul Valéry's lyric poetry, as well as his dialogues, dramatic work, and critical prose, have preoccupied his critics, his prose poems have been virtually ignored and his position in the tradition of the genre has remained unacknowledged. This study demonstrates the significance of Valéry as a prose poet and of the form and its evolution in the poet's oeuvre. The close textual reading and analysis concentrate on Valéry's prose aubades – the prose poems, poetic prose fragments, and sequences celebrating the emergence of the self and its world at dawn. The theme of dawn pervades Valéry's poetry from the opening chord of Charmes to those Notebooks which he kept from almost half a century and which are the source of so much of his poetry. This book shows how the moment and theme of dawn have also inspired the greater part of Valéry's prose poems and poetic prose fragments. Critics have begun to show interest in the break-up of traditional genres and in the emergence of the fragment as a new literary form. But Valéry's position in this development has so far escaped critical inquiry, as have his prose poems in general. Professor Franklin redresses the balance with rigor, poise, and elegance. She shows how Valéry's artistic progression from the traditional prose poem to the fragment, the evolution of the recueil to the sequence, represents a development very similar to that manifests in another new prose form, the new nouveau roman. It is a brilliant analysis of a neglected aspect of Valéry's work and a thoughtful interpretation of Valéry's thought and poetics as a whole

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Dawn in literature; Description (Rhetoric); Prose poems, French; Sprache; Prosagedicht
    Other subjects: Valéry, Paul (1871-1945)
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  17. Breaking the Chain. Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction
    Author: Schor, Naomi
    Published: [1985]; © 1985
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    A collection of essays spanning the years from 1975-1983 as the focus of the field of literary theory and criticism passed from structuralism to feminism and deconstruction. Part of a series of studies concerned with mapping the strategies deployed... more

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    A collection of essays spanning the years from 1975-1983 as the focus of the field of literary theory and criticism passed from structuralism to feminism and deconstruction. Part of a series of studies concerned with mapping the strategies deployed in representation to contain female libido

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Französisch; Realismus; Frau <Motiv>; Frau; Roman; Literatur
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  18. Proust’S Nocturnal Muse
    Author: Bell, William Stewart
    Published: [1962]; © 1962
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Studies two muses in the works of Proust, the first being involuntary memory and the second being the dream, the nocturnal muse, which inhabits the subterranean world of darkness, sleep, and the unconscious more

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    Studies two muses in the works of Proust, the first being involuntary memory and the second being the dream, the nocturnal muse, which inhabits the subterranean world of darkness, sleep, and the unconscious

     
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    Other subjects: Proust, Marcel (1871-1922): À la recherche du temps perdu
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  19. The Spectacular Past
    Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France
    Author: Samuels, Maurice
    Published: [2018]; © 2004
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced... more

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    Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and after the Revolution transformed the past into a spectacle. The wax display (in which visitors circulated amid life-size statues of historical figures), the phantasmagoria show (in which images of historical personages were projected onto smoke or invisible screens), and the panorama (in which spectators viewed giant circular canvases depicting historical scenes) employed new optical technologies to entice crowds of spectators. Such entertainments, Samuels asserts, provided bourgeois audiences with an illusion of mastery over the past, allowing them to picture their new role as historical agents.Samuels demonstrates how the spectacular mode of historical representation pervaded historiography, drama, and the novel during the Romantic period. He then argues that the early Realist fiction of Balzac and Stendhal emerged as a critique of the spectacular historical imagination. By investigating how postrevolutionary France envisioned the past, Samuels illuminates a vital moment in the cultural history of modernity

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; French fiction; History in literature; Historischer Roman; Französisch; Geschichtsbild; Roman
    Other subjects: Scott, Walter (1771-1832); Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850); Stendhal (1783-1842)
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  20. Cinepoetry
    Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry
    Author: Wall-Romana, Christophe
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of... more

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    Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long history of cross-media concepts and practices often thought to emerge with the digital.In showing the cinematic consciousness of Mallarmé and Breton and calling for a reappraisal of the influential poetry theory of the early filmmaker Jean Epstein, Cinepoetry reevaluates the bases of literary modernism. The book also explores the crucial link between trauma and trans-medium experiments in the wake of two world wars and highlights the marginal identity of cinepoets who were often Jewish, gay, foreign-born, or on the margins.What results is a broad rethinking of the relationship between film and literature. The episteme of cinema, the book demonstates, reached the very core of its supposedly highbrow rival, while at the same time modern poetry cultivated the technocultural savvy that is found today in slams, e-poetry, and poetic-digital hybrids

     
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    Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    Subjects: André Breton; Charles Chaplin; Jean Epstein; Stéphane Mallarmé; cross media studies; early cinema; film studies; literary criticism; modern French literature; poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; French poetry; French poetry; Motion pictures and literature; Motion pictures in literature
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  21. An Atmospherics of the City
    Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise
    Author: Chambers, Ross
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city?An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles... more

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    What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city?An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles Baudelaire’s evolution from a writer who practices a form of fetishizing aesthetics in which poetry works to beautify the ordinary to one who perceives background noise and disorder—the city’s version of a transcendent atmosphere—as evidence of the malign work of a transcendent god of time, history, and ultimate destruction.Analyzing this shift, particularly as evidenced in Tableaux parisiens and Le Spleen de Paris, Ross Chambers shows how Baudelaire’s disenchantment with the politics of his day and the coincident rise of overpopulation, poverty, and Haussmann’s modernization of Paris influenced the poet’s work to conceive a poetry of allegory, one with the power to alert and disalienate its otherwise inattentive reader whose senses have long been dulled by the din of his environment.Providing a completely new and original understanding of both Baudelaire’s ethics and his aesthetics, Chambers reveals how the shift from themes of the supernatural in Baudelaire to ones of alienation allowed a new way for him to articulate and for his fellow Parisians to comprehend the rapidly changing conditions of the city and, in the process, to invent a "modern beauty" from the realm of suffering and the abject as they embodied forms of urban experience

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; City and town life in literature
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  22. The Proustian Quest
    Contributor: Carter, William (Publisher); Lange, Jeffrey (Publisher)
    Published: [1992]; © 1992
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    "An ambitious study, the fruit of sustained work over many years. Professor Carter's book deploys a stunning knowledge of Proust and places Carter among the first line of Proust scholars in the country."-Roger Shattuck,Boston University The Proustian... more

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    "An ambitious study, the fruit of sustained work over many years. Professor Carter's book deploys a stunning knowledge of Proust and places Carter among the first line of Proust scholars in the country."-Roger Shattuck,Boston University The Proustian Quest is the first full-length study that explores the influence of social change on Proust's vision. In Remembrance of Things Past, Proust describes how the machines of transportation and communication transformed fashion, social mores, time-space perception, and the understanding of the laws of nature. Concentrating on the motif of speed, Carter establishes the centrality of the modern world to the novel's main themes and produces a far- reaching synthesis that demonstrates the work's profound structural unity

     
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  23. Compassion's Edge
    Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France
    Author: Ibbett, Katherine
    Published: [2020]; © 2018
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown... more

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    Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the Edict in 1685. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division: the seventeenth-century texts of fellow-feeling led not to communal concerns but to paralysis, misreading, and isolation. Early modern fellow-feeling drew distinctions, policed its borders, and far from reaching out to others, kept the other at arm's length. It became a central feature in the debates about the place of religious minorities after the Wars of Religion, and according to Katherine Ibbett, continues to shape the way we think about difference today.Compassion's Edge ranges widely over genres, contexts, and geographies. Ibbett reads epic poetry, novels, moral treatises, dramatic theory, and theological disputes. She takes up major figures such as D'Aubigné, Montaigne, Lafayette, Corneille, and Racine, as well as less familiar Jesuit theologians, Huguenot ministers, and nuns from a Montreal hospital. Although firmly rooted in early modern studies, she reflects on the ways in which the language of compassion figures in contemporary conversations about national and religious communities. Investigating the affective undertow of religious toleration, Compassion's Edge provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together

     
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    Subjects: Cultural Studies; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Compassion in literature; French literature; French literature; Religion and politics
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  24. Zola Before the Rougon-Macquart
    Author: Lapp, John
    Published: [2020]; © 1964
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Zola has begun to receive the serious critical study he deserves, but which, chiefly for religious and political resons, has until recent years been denied. Professor Lapp now makes an important contribution to this recent work on Zola. It is his... more

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    Zola has begun to receive the serious critical study he deserves, but which, chiefly for religious and political resons, has until recent years been denied. Professor Lapp now makes an important contribution to this recent work on Zola. It is his belief that a study of the early works of all great writers is indispensable to an understanding of their main work (in this case Rougon-Macquart). In making his examination Professor Lapp has been interested in determining whether certain patters of plot, character, situation, and image which occur constantly throughout the Rougon-Macquart were present also in the works prior to 1870. His study shows that they were, and it places Zola in the novelistic tradition stretching from the eighteenth century to the present. It also demonstrates that Zola's chief problem, like Balzac's and Flaubert's, was to reconcile the romantic and the realistic world views. This clash of opposites becomes more evident when the earlier works are studied: in his first novel, La Confession de Claude, which like others of his early works has strong elements of autobiography in it, Zola exclaims concerning the ugly prostitute whom he makes his heroine, and whom Claude loves: "I am the dream, she is the reality." Evidently part of Zola's development involves the struggle for objectivity which he never fully obtains, since Claude-Zola appears in almost all of his novels. From this study, which inevitable involves comparisons between the early and later works, emerges a new view of Zola's art, of his sources, of his style, his character portrayal, and his use of myth, his descriptive technique, his handling of structure, point of view, and other matters of first importance in any study of a novelist. In describing Zola's development as a novelist Professor Lapp succeeds, too, in showing that at the roots of Zola's naturalism lay an attitude to life which developed very early and which found its finest expression in a peculiarc conjunction of the mytho-poetic tradition and his own "bursting out upon" the world

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
    Other subjects: Zola, Émile (1840-1902)
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  25. Metaphoric Narration
    Paranarrative Dimensions in A la recherche du temps perdu
    Author: Pimentel, Luz Aurora
    Published: [2020]; © 1990
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Readers of Proust are aware of the special place that metaphor has in his work, both as his passport to immorality and as an instrument for discovery. Countless books and articles have been written on his stylistic use of metaphor, but very few have... more

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    Readers of Proust are aware of the special place that metaphor has in his work, both as his passport to immorality and as an instrument for discovery. Countless books and articles have been written on his stylistic use of metaphor, but very few have described its role in the text's organization. Luz Aurora Pimentel begins with the proposition that metaphor should operate beyond -- or below -- the observable verbal texture of a narrative. Such an abstract level of functioning in the process of metaphorization considerably affects narrative structure as a whole and generates a sort of paranarrative, or virtual subsidiary narrative line, that must be constructed by the reader. To examine this abstract potential Pimental uses both theory and criticism. She divides the book into two major sections; the first examines the role of metaphor in narrative discourse in order to establish a theory of metaphoric narration; the second applies this theory to Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. The author demonstrates a thorough knowledge of modern literary theories of metaphor, including those of Genette, Greimas, Ricoeur, Ricardou, and Riffaterre, while fashioning her own original view of the role of metaphoric narration. Her book can be read with profit not only by those interested in Proust but also by those concerned with literary theory and metaphoric narration in general

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Metaphor; Narration (Rhetoric); Metapher
    Other subjects: Proust, Marcel (1871-1922): À la recherche du temps perdu
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