Title: French prose and criticism, 1790 to World War II /
Authors: Bloom, Harold
Publisher: Chelsea House,
Year: 1990
Subjects: French prose literature History and criticism.; French prose literature History and criticism.; Criticism France History; Criticism France History
Abstract: A collection of twenty-six critical essays on French prose and criticism from 1790 to World War II.
Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Destutt de Tracy : ideology, language, and the critique of metaphysics / Brian William Head -- Mme. de Staël's De l'Allemagne : a misleading intermediary / Lilian R. Furst -- Benjamin Constant : ancient and modern freedom in context / Stephen Holmes -- The occidental Orient : Chateaubriand / Andrew Martin -- Fourier / Roland Barthes -- The foundations of positivism and the rise of sociology : Saint-Simon and Comte / Herbert Marcuse -- A sort of history : Michelet's La sorcière / Linda Orr -- The treatment of agriculture in the works of Edgar Quinet published before 1851 / Ceri Crossley -- Sante-Beuve's literary portraiture / Emerson R. Mzrks -- De Tocqueville and the problem of the French Revolution / François Furet -- Proudhorn and Rousseau / Aaron Noland -- Baudelaire against photography : an allegory of old age / Susan Blood -- Islam, philology, and French culture : Renan and Massignon / edward W. Said -- Taine and Saussure / Hans Aarsleff -- Mallarmé and literary space / Maurice Blanchot -- Mallarmé : poetry and syntax : what the gypsy knew / Barbara Johnson -- Saussure : the name of the game / Sylvère Lotringer -- Epistemology un Durkheim's Elementary forms of religious life / Terry F. Godlove, Jr. -- Movement-image : commentaries on Bergson / Gilles Deleuze -- Maurras's genealogy of the decline of France, and proposed remedies / Michael Sutton -- The duplicitous genre of André Gide / Kevin Newmark -- Proust reads Ruskin / David R. Ellison -- Qual Quelle : Valéry's sources / Jacques Derrida -- Bachelard and the romantic imagination / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Breton and Freud / Jean-Pierre Morel -- Doors : Simone Weil with Kafka / A. Smock.