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Claude Simon - Writing The Visible

by Celia Britton

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 This is a major study of the Nobel prize-winning French novelist Claude Simon. Simon is a complex figure: for all that he writes in a distinctively modern fictional tradition (exemplified by Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet), his novels contain strong elements of visual representation alongside a very different king of free-floating, anti-realist writing.
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The Unintended Reader - Feminism And Manon Lescaut

by Naomi Segal

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 This 1986 study of Manon Lescaut draws on various debates in psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism. It aims to analyse the narrator's presentation of this story of a young man's passion for a femme fatale and to suggest ways in which feminist criticism can help explain how the text operates.
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Corneille, Classicism And The Ruses Of Symmetry

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 Professor Greenberg's lucid study examines the themes of authority, power and sexuality in Corneille's major plays, drawing on the work of Foucault, and Freudian and feminist critics.
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Leo Spitzer - Essays On Seventeenth-Century French Literature

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 David Bellos's introduction sets Spitzer's method of textual and stylistic interpretation in its historical context and sketches out the career of this supremely knowledgeable reader for whom knowledge was less important than understanding.
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Flaubert And The Gift Of Speech - Dialogue And Discourse In Four "Modern" Novels

by Stirling Haig

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 This is the first book-length study of Flaubert's use of dialogue, an important but neglected component of his fictional texts. Professor Haig's starting point is Sartre's observation that 'Flaubert does not believe that we speak: we are spoken'.
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Proust - Collected Essays On The Writer And His Art

by J. M. Cocking

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 This book offers both an introduction that is fully accessible to the newcomer and a series of original judgements on Proust's work that will provide stimulus and excitement for the specialist.
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Beckett'S Fiction - In Different Words

by Leslie (University Of Warwick) Hill

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 This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983). Drawing on contemporary literary theory, the book rejects the idea that Beckett is an author committed to expressing a particular view of the world.
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Flaubert'S Characters - The Language Of Illusion

by Diana Knight

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 This major new study takes issue both with the traditional critical view that Flaubert's central characters are weak and with the approach adopted by a number of contemporary critics who claim that character is deliberately undermined in the interests of non-representational writing.
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Pictorialist Poetics - Poetry And The Visual Arts In Nineteenth-Century France

by David H. T. Scott

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 This book offers a comprehensive description of how writers, in particular poets in nineteenth-century France, became increasingly aware of the visual element in writing from the point of view both of content and of the formal organisation of the words in the text.
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Sartre: Literature And Theory

by Rhiannon Goldthorpe

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 In this major study Rhiannon Goldthorpe takes up the challenge of Sartre's diversity in an original and provocative way. In addition, by reference to recently published fragments from Sartre's earlier work, Goldthorpe calls into question existing views of Sartre's intellectual development and provides a new history of the crucial Sartrean concept of 'commitment'.
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Sartre And 'Les Temps Modernes'

by Howard Davies

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 This is a history of Jean-Paul Sartre's monthly review Les Temps Modernes, an immensely influential publication launched in 1945. The journal set out from the beginning to effect a revolutionary redefinition of psychology, sociology, political theory and anthropology, in order to assist in the socialist transformation of France and the world.
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Irony And Ideology In Rabelais - Structures Of Subversion

by Jerome Schwartz

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 Since the appearance of Bakhtin's famous study of Rabelais and popular culture, Rabelais's writings have been a major focus of debate in literary and cultural criticism. Jerome Schwartz draws on both sides of the historical/formalist debate in this new reading of the four authentic books of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel.
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The Knowledge Of Ignorance - From Genesis To Jules Verne

by Andrew Martin

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 This highly original study is concerned with the theory of knowledge. It approaches the subject in a new way by exploring the recurrent paradox which equates pure ignorance with perfect knowledge, twin ideals free from the impurities and imperfections of discourse.
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Poetry And Fable - Studies In Mythological Narrative In Sixteenth-Century France

by Ann Moss

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 This book is a major study of the development of French poetry in the Renaissance, which examines changes in style and vision by looking both at how poetry was read in this period and how it was written.
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The Limits Of Narrative - Essays On Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud And Mallarme

by Nathaniel Wing

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 This book examines the problematic area of narrative structure under conditions of severe stress. Each of the four authors, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud and MallarmÃ©, is shown to be concerned with the tension between narrative coherence as a desirable goal and an unfortunate check placed on the 'free' play of fantasy.
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Taste And Ideology In Seventeenth-Century France

by Michael Moriarty

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 This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, MÃ©rÃ©, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La BruyÃ¨re and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender.
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Baudelaire In 1859 - A Study In The Sources Of Poetic Creativity

by Richard D. E. Burton

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 This book is an intensive study of what was by far the most productive year in Baudelaire's literary career. It combines biographical investigation with detailed textual analysis in order to locate the sources of the extraordinary 'explosion' (Baudelaires' own word) of poetic creativity that he experienced during that year.
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Tradition And Desire - From David To Delacroix

by Norman Bryson

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 In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them.
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Mallarme, Manet And Redon - Visual And Aural Signs And The Generation Of Meaning

by Penny Florence

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 This study, first published in 1986, examines the many facets of MallarmÃ©s relationship to the visual arts.
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The Death Of Stephane Mallarme

by Leo Bersani

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 This book explores a fundamental paradox within MallarmÃ© work as a whole.
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The Seductions Of Psychoanalysis - Freud, Lacan And Derrida

by John Forrester

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 The Seductions of Psychoanalysis explores the most seductive of all recent psychoanalytic traditions, that inspired by Jacques Lacan, whose radical questioning of previously accepted psychoanalytic effects has been continued implicitly by Michel Foucault and explicitly by Jacques Derrida.
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Narration And Description In The French Realist Novel - The Temporality Of Lying And Forgetting

by James H. Reid

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 This book demonstrates instead the writers' use of irony and allegory in struggling against the deceitfulness of their own texts.
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Reading Realism In Stendhal

by Ann Jefferson

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 This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process?
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The Discourse Of Enlightenment In Eighteenth-Century France - Diderot And The Art Of Philosophizing

by Daniel (University Of Minnesota) Brewer

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 This study focuses on Denis Diderot, whose experimentation with presenting critical knowledge exemplifies the Enlightenment's struggle to produce a rationalist critique of all prior knowledge.
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