Author: Théophile GautierPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Works of Théophile Gautier ...: The quartette. The mummy's foot
Author: Théophile GautierMy Fantoms
Author: Theophile GautierPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 159017271X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature. In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, has found a brilliantly effective new way to bring this great bu too-little-known writer into English. My Fantoms assembles seven stories spanning the whole of Gautier’s career into a unified work that captures the essence of his adventurous life and subtle art. From the erotic awakening of “The Adolescent” through “The Poet,” a piercing recollection of the mad genius Gérard de Nerval, the great friend of Gautier’s youth, My Fantoms celebrates the senses and illuminates the strange disguises of the spirit, while taking readers on a tour of modernity at its most mysterious. ”What ever would the Devil find to do in Paris?” Gautier wonders. “He would meet people just as diabolical as he, and find himself taken for some naïve provincial…” Tapestries, statues, and corpses come to life; young men dream their way into ruin; and Gautier keeps his faith in the power of imagination: “No one is truly dead, until they are no longer loved.”
The Romance of the Mummy :
Author: Théophile GautierPublisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Portraits of the Day
Author: Théophile GautierPublisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Dead Woman in Love
Author: ThŽophile GauthierPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244241562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
First published in 1836, Th�ophile Gautier's 'The Dead Woman in Love' is a supernatural tale, recounting the life of the priest named Romuald who falls in love with the beautiful and enigmatic Clarimonde, who the reader later learns to be a vampire. At the beginning of the tale, Romuald is asked whether he has ever loved and to which he responds, "yes." On the day of his Ordination, when he was a young man, he sees a beautiful woman whose hypnotic voice promises to love him and to make him happier than he would be in heaven. Torn between his amorous attraction to her and his Christian beliefs, he finishes the ceremony despite her appeals. However, he is captured by her beauty and he is taken away from his life as a priest to live in Venice with the alluring vampire, who subsists by drinking his blood while he sleeps.
Hashish, Wine, Opium
Author: Charles BaudelairePublisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714548367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Among the earliest artistic accounts of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the psychological and mind-enhancing effects of hashish, wine and opium. As well as providing an absorbing of nineteenth-century drug use, Hashish, Wine, Opium captures the spirit of French Romanticism, in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional, and serves as a fascinating prologue to the psychedelic literature of the following centuries.
Selected Lyrics
Author: Théophile GautierPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300164335
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
'Selected Lyrics' presents a short list of nineteenth-century French poets to be studied with Théophile Gautier.
Enamels and Cameos and Other Poems
Author: Theophile GautierPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776587219
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A creative innovator who boldly traversed traditional boundaries separating different genres and schools, French poet Theophile Gautier was extremely influential, playing a role in shaping the styles of poets from T. S. Elliot to Ezra Pound. In this, his most acclaimed collection of verse, Gautier offers his philosophical ponderings and lyrical musings.
Constantinople
Author: Théophile GautierThe Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 6, The Nineteenth Century, c.1830–1914
Author: M. A. R. HabibPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316175170
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast field of literary criticism between 1830 and 1914. In over thirty essays written from a broad range of perspectives, international scholars examine the growth of literary criticism as an institution, and the major critical developments in diverse national traditions and in different genres, as well as the major movements of Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism and Decadence. The History offers a detailed focus on some of the era's great critical figures, such as Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine and Matthew Arnold, and includes essays devoted to the connections of literary criticism with other disciplines in science, the arts and Biblical studies. The publication of this volume marks the completion of the monumental Cambridge History of Literary Criticism from antiquity to the present day.