Screen LibraryQuestions of Influence in Modern French Literature /
"What is meant by 'influence' in the realm of literature, art, music or ideas? How is it related to concepts such as pastiche or parody? Self-evidently, our understanding of any 'past' work depends on contemporary methods of reading; but does it makes sense, therefore, to cl...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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"What is meant by 'influence' in the realm of literature, art, music or ideas? How is it related to concepts such as pastiche or parody? Self-evidently, our understanding of any 'past' work depends on contemporary methods of reading; but does it makes sense, therefore, to claim that influence can be retroactive? Harold Bloom used the term 'the anxiety of influence' as the title of a famous study, but his is only one of many theorizations that span the modern era. This collection of essays examines a variety of texts written in French from the eighteenth century onwards, together with a number of visual and musical works. (All quotations in other languages are followed by translations in English.) The contributors elucidate, question and/or draw on major theories of influence, in new readings of well-known works. Whilst all engage with French and/or francophone culture, the works examined open cross-disciplinary perspectives"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxvii, 223 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-217) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781137309136 (hardback) : 113730913X (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PQ143 |
| CLC: | I565.06 |
| Call Number: | I565.06/Q57 |
| Contents: |
Introduction: Influence: Form, Subjects Time / Voltaire, Dante and the Dynamics of Influence / Post-Revolutionary Uses of Pascal / The Survival of Sade in French Literature of the 1950s / Jules Laforgue, Hartmann and Schopenhauer: From Influence to rewriting / Text, Image and Music: Paul Valéry's Melodrama Sémiramis and the Influence of the Ballets Russes / Influence as Appropriation of the Creative Gesture: Henri Matisse's Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans / Samuel Beckett's Funerary Sculpture / 'Périmer d'avance': Blanchot, Derrida and Influence / Figuring Influence: Some Influential Metaphors in Derrida, Vale;ry and Freud / Roland Barthes's Ghosts: Photobiographical Influence and Legacies / 'Le Cycle de Nestor': Patrick Pécherot's Rewriting of Léo Malet / Jacques Roubaud's Rejection of Japoniste Influence: Tokyo infra-ordinaire / Ghosts of Influence? Spectrality in the Novels of Marie Darrieussecq / 'Now I See Me, Now You Don't': Working with/against Paternal Influence in Marie Nimier's Photo-Photo / |