UID:
almahu_9947414272402882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 317 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511553929 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in French ; 58
Content:
Paul Valéry's work is a unique odyssey in the universe of ideas and mental forms. The most recently acknowledged - and the most private - of the masters of modernity, Valéry is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. He navigates freely within the mental galaxies known to scientists, poets, literary theorists, musicians, philosophers, historicans and social anthropologists, always concerned to explore the potential and limits of the human mind. Originally published in 1999, the present volume of essays by internationally recognised scholars offered the first comprehensive account of Valéry's work in English or French. It provided a series of readings bringing into focus the deeper coherence that animates what Valéry called his 'unitary mind in a thousand pieces', and offered perspectives on the immense range of his experimental and fragmentary writings. This book moved forward the frontiers of our understanding of Valéry's work, and substantially altered the way in which he was perceived.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Towards a biography of the mind / Ted Bastet -- Thinking-writing games of the Cahiers / Paul Gifford -- Paradigms of the self: Valéry's mythical models / Robert Pickering -- The fascination of science / Judith Robinson-Valéry -- An art of rethinking: Valéry's 'negative philosophy' / Régine Pietra -- The poetics of practice and theory / Michel Jarrety -- 'Esprit, Attente pure, éternel suspens ... ': Valéry's prose poetry / Stephen Romer -- Counter-fiction / Brian Stimpson -- The dialogues and Mon Faust: the inner politics of thought / William Marx -- Major poems: the voice of the subject / Jean-Michel Maulpoix -- Other voices: intertextuality and the art of pure poetry / Suzanne Nash -- Manuscript steps: 'Les Pas' / Florence de Lussy -- An aesthetics of the subject: music and the visual arts / Brian Stimpson -- Politics, history and the modern world / Nicole Celeyrette-Pietri -- Valéry and the feminine / Kirsteen Anderson -- Dream and the unconscious / Malcolm Bowie -- Self and other: Valéry's 'lost object of desire' / Paul Gifford.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521584944
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553929
