Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature [electronic resource] /
Baldwin, Thomas.editor.
Fowler, James.editor.
Medeiros, Ana de.editor.
This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards. Connections are made with related work in a range of disciplines.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Influence: Form, Subjects, Time; 1 Voltaire, Dante and the Dynamics of Influence; 2 Post-Revolutionary Uses of Pascal; 3 The Survival of Sade in French Literature of the 1950s; 4 Jules Laforgue, Hartmann and Schopenhauer: From Influence to Rewriting; 5 Text, Image and Music: Paul Valéry's Melodrama Sémiramis and the Influence of the Ballets Russes; 6 Influence as Appropriation of the Creative Gesture: Henri Matisse's Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans
7 Samuel Beckett's Funerary Sculpture8 'Périmer d'avance': Blanchot, Derrida and Influence; 9 Figuring Influence: Some Influential Metaphors in Derrida, Valéry and Freud; 10 Roland Barthes's Ghosts: Photobiographical Influence and Legacies; 11 'Le Cycle de Nestor': Patrick Pécherot's Rewriting of Léo Malet; 12 Jacques Roubaud's Rejection of Japoniste Influence: Tokyo infra-ordinaire; 13 Ghosts of Influence? Spectrality in the Novels of Marie Darrieussecq; 14 'Now I See Me, Now You Don't': Working with/against Paternal Influence in Marie Nimier's Photo-Photo; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards. Connections are made with related work in a range of disciplines.
France-History.
Literature.
European literature.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
History of France.
Literature, general.
European Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.