
The Metamorphoses of the Self
The Mystic, the Sensualist, and the Artist in the Works of Julien Green
John M. Dunaway(Author)
The University Press of Kentucky
Published on 15. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-8131-5198-4 (ISBN)
Description
American writer Julien Green's (1900--1998) origins, artistic motivation, and identity was a source of mystery and confusion even for those that most feted him. The first non-French national to be elected to the Academie francaise, Green authored several novels ( The Dark Journey, The Closed Garden, Moira, Each Man in His Darkness, and the Dixie trilogy), a four-volume autobiography ( The Green Paradise, The War at Sixteen, Love in America and Restless Youth), and his famous Diary.
In this study, John. M Dunaway begins with an examination of the autobiographical context of Julien Green's works, in which the duality of mystic and sensualist is quite clearly polarized. He then proceeds through a selected series of Green's fictional works in an attempt to show the birth and nature of the third self as a personal myth of the artist. He then considers the fiction in chronological order with the intention of demonstrating the evolution of the myth of the third self in Green's career.
In this study, John. M Dunaway begins with an examination of the autobiographical context of Julien Green's works, in which the duality of mystic and sensualist is quite clearly polarized. He then proceeds through a selected series of Green's fictional works in an attempt to show the birth and nature of the third self as a personal myth of the artist. He then considers the fiction in chronological order with the intention of demonstrating the evolution of the myth of the third self in Green's career.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lexington
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illus
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
168 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8131-5198-4 (9780813151984)
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John M. Dunaway, professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Mercer University, is the author of The Double Vocation: Christian Presence in Twentieth-Century French Fiction.