| Description |
274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Stanford French and Italian studies ; v. 33 |
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Stanford French and Italian studies ; v. 33.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 273-274. |
| Contents |
[1.] Narration and knowing: historical and critical essays ; Proust and Paul Valéry: Epistemology and literary theory / Robert Greer Cohn -- Narrative time: the musical values of commonplaces / Hanna Charney -- The literary enthusiasms of Valéry / Jean Hytier -- Description and perception: Valéry and Proust / Micheline Tison-Braun -- Styles of naming in Honoré de Balzac and Marcel Proust / Jeanine P. Plottel -- [2.] The literary generations: Victor Hugo ; What is romanticism? ; What is symbolism? ; modern masters: Hugo, Shakespeare, the promontory / Victor Brombert -- Baudelaire and Delacroix: the celebration of a mystery / Bettina Knapp -- Anteros, son of Cain? / John W. Kneller -- Mallarmé and Rimbaud in crisis / Éléonore M. Zimmerann -- From Mallarmé to Breton: continuity and discontinuity in the poetics of ambiguity / Anna Balakian -- Mallarmé's "La gloire" / James R. Lawler -- The meaning of surrealism, and why it matters / Mary Ann Caws -- André Breton and Malcolm de Chazal: perception versus opacity / J.H. Matthews -- Mauriac's Thérèse: an androgynous heroine / Diana Festa-McCormick -- Argile and the poetry of Claude Esteban: an introduction / Robert W. Greene -- [3.] Rhetoric, reference, and mode: literature and sincerity ; Jean-Paul Sartre: Rhetoric, truth and power: Lanson's solution / Michel Beaujour -- Seeing and believing in Dante and Beckett / Neal Oxenhandler -- Grammatical insincerity and Samuel Beckett's non-expressionism: space, subjectivity, and time in The unnamable / Edouard Morot-Sir -- Existential humanism and literary modes / Edith Kern -- Oracular lives: Sartre and the twentieth century / Peter Caws. |
| Subject |
French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Peyre, Henri, 1901-1988.
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| Added Author |
Peyre, Henri, 1901-1988.
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Caws, Mary Ann.
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| ISBN |
0915838044 paperback |
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