UID:
almafu_9960119529002883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-59772-X
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in French ; 54
Content:
In this 1995 book, which includes a substantial introduction, Jeffrey Mehlman confronts the politically devastating resonances in the work of several leading French writers. The essays focus on the series of enigmas surrounding the 'Blanchot affair' - a scandal provoked by Mehlman's revelation in 1977 that Maurice Blanchot, one of the tutelary figures of contemporary French thought, had in the 1930s been a prominent fascist journalist. Mehlman takes the issue of Blanchot's forgotten political essays deep into the most revered - and misunderstood - of his novels, L'Arrêt de mort. Using this affair as a point of departure, Mehlman sheds light on the question of the usability of psychoanalysis for literary readings (examining, for example, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Valéry); he also investigates the ideological and political connotations of similar literary and theoretical material. The volume as a whole provides a consistently provocative meditation on literature, ethics, and the experience of the French in World War II.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Introduction -- 2. Craniometry and criticism: notes on a Valeryan criss-cross -- 3. Literature and hospitality: Klossowski's Hamann -- 4. Literature and collaboration: Benoist-Mechin's return to Proust -- 5. "Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote" again -- 6. Iphigenia 38: deconstruction, history, and the case of L'Arret de mort -- 7. Writing and deference: the politics of literary adulation -- 8. Perspectives: on Paul de Man and Le Soir -- 9. Prosopopeia revisited -- 10. The paranoid style in French prose: Lacan with Leon Bloy -- 11. The Holocaust comedies of "Emile Ajar" -- 12. Pour Sainte-Beuve: Maurice Blanchot, 10 March 1941 -- 13. Flowers of evil: Paul Morand, the Collaboration, and literary history.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-03235-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-47213-X
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597725
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