The Writing of Melancholy: Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism - Hardcover

Chambers, Ross

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226100707 ISBN 13: 9780226100708

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Ross Chambers, an eminent critic of French literature, proposes an original theory of the development of French modernism. His work brings together practical criticism, textual theory, and historical analysis to fashion a new way of thinking about writing and reading as they intersect with history. Along the way, Chambers offers brilliant readings of texts from Madame Bovary to Les Fleurs du mal.

After the failed revolution of 1848, the sense of disillusion that swept through France deeply affected the literature of the time. Chambers argues that literary melancholy and disorientation constituted a symptom of historical conditions rather than, as many other critics contend, a willful resistance to them.

Enriched by careful readings of works by Flaubert, Nerval, Baudelaire, Gautier, and Hugo, this book is a subtle meditation on the powers of writing and reading and a suggestive contribution to current debates over the historical status of literary texts. Originally published in French, the book has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter on Gérard de Nerval's "Sylvie."

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Ross Chambers is the Marvin Felheim Distinguished University Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Mary Seidman Trouille is a lecturer in French and the humanities at the University of Chicago.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226100707
• ISBN 13: 9780226100708
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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