Format:
xxvii, 223 pages
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9781137309136
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Content:
"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"--
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-217) and index
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Machine generated contents note:Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Influence: Form, Subjects Time; Daniel Brewer -- 1. Voltaire, Dante and the Dynamics of Influence; Russell Goulbourne -- 2. Post-Revolutionary Uses of Pascal; Philip Knee -- 3. The Survival of Sade in French Literature of the 1950s; Pettine Coudurier -- 4. Jules Laforgue, Hartmann and Schopenhauer: From Influence to rewriting; Madeleine Guy -- 5. Text, Image and Music: Paul Vale;ry's Melodrama Se;miramis and the Influence of the Ballets Russes; Natasha Grigorian -- 6. Influence as Appropriation of the Creative Gesture: Henri Matisse's Poèmes de Charles d'Orle;ans; Kathryn Brown -- 7. Samuel Beckett's Funerary Sculpture; Claire Lozier -- 8. 'Périmer d'avance': Blanchot, Derrida and Influence; John McKeane -- 9. Figuring Influence: Some Influential Metaphors in Derrida, Vale;ry and Freud; Paul Earlie -- 10. Roland Barthes's Ghosts: Photobiographical Influence and Legacies; Fabien Arriberth-Narce -- 11. 'Le Cycle de Nestor': Patrick Pécherot's Rewriting of Léo Malet; Angela Kimyongür -- 12. Jacques Roubaud's Rejection of Japoniste Influence: Tokyo infra-ordinaire; Lucy O'Meara -- 13. Ghosts of Influence? Spectrality in the Novels of Marie Darrieussecq; Carine Fre;ville -- 14. 'Now I See Me, Now You Don't': Working with/against Paternal Influence in Marie Nimier's Photo-Photo; Ana de Medeiros.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Französisch
;
Literatur
;
Einfluss
;
Literaturbeziehungen
;
Geschichte 1700-2010
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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