Author: Alfred de MussetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
La confession d'un enfant du siècle
Author: Alfred de MussetConfession of a Child of the Century
Author: Alfred de MussetThe Romantic Art of Confession
Author: Susan M. LevinPublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571131898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Romantic Art of Confession is about works specifically entitled "confessions" written during the Romantic period in Britain and France. Reading these similarly conceived texts together illuminates uniquely the Romantic art of confession as it illuminates the written craft of self-recollection and definition.
Confession of a Child of the Century
Author: Alfred de MussetThe Confession of a Child of the Century -- Volume 2
Author: Alfred de MussetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalogue of Foreign Literature
Author: San Francisco Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature
Author: Patrick VincentPublisher:
ISBN: 1108497063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
Examining Romanticism's pan-European circulation of people, ideas, and texts, this history re-analyses the period and Britain's place in it.
Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism
Author: Vladimir GolsteinPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116115
Category : Heroes in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This is the first study of Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) that attempts to integrate the in-depth interpretations of all his major texts--including his famous A Hero of Our Time, the novel that laid the foundation for the Russian psychological novel. Lermontov's explorations of the virtues and limitations of heroic, self-reliant conduct have subsequently become obscured or misread. This new book focuses upon the peculiar, disturbing, and arguably most central feature of Russian culture: its suspicion of and hostility toward individual achievement and self-assertion. The analysis and interpretation of Lermontov's texts enables Golstein to address broader cultural issues by exploring the reasons behind the persistent misreading of Lermontov's major works and by investigating the cultural attitudes that shaped Russia's reaction to the challenges of modernity.
Victims of the Book
Author: Francois ProulxPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487532180
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen’s masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie stérile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen’s reading habits. Fin-de-siècle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, paradoxically proposing their own novels as potential cures. In the early twentieth century, this corpus was critically revisited by a new generation of writers. Victims of the Book shows how André Gide and Marcel Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-siècle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader.
The Politics of Love
Author: Maxime FoersterPublisher: University of New Hampshire Press
ISBN: 1512601713
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
What would love be if heterosexual couples were no longer assigned gender and sexual norms? Maxime Foerster examines the Òheterosexual troubleÓ between men and women in nineteenth-century French Romantic and Decadent literature. Key works by authors ranging from George Sand to Charles Baudelaire persistently demonstrate that heterosexuality did not work: these authors, and many others, investigated the struggle that men and women alike waged against patriarchal norms. Whereas Romantic fiction dedicated itself to the reinvention of love, Decadence promoted sexual and gender deviance. In expertly evaluating the discord afflicting fictional heterosexual couples, male and female dandies, and doctors and their female patients, Foerster shows the crucial role that literature played in the fashioning of alternative identities. A concluding look at ProustÕs Ë la recherche du temps perdu traces the legacy of heterosexual trouble in the twentieth century.