Lectures croisées
Essays by Alan Raitt
Published on 28. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-3-0343-0929-5 (ISBN)
Description
This selection of essays by Alan Raitt provides a series of cross-readings of nineteenth-century French literary authors and texts. The collection revolves around Flaubert and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the two authors with whom Raitt is most associated, situating them and their principal works in relation to each other, as well as to Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Huysmans. In so doing, the collection shows the extent to which nineteenth-century French literary history appears both as a succession and as a simultaneity of literary styles and credos.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-0929-5 (9783034309295)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0667-5
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alan Raitt (1930-2006) was one of the most distinguished French scholars of his generation. He was Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include landmark studies of Flaubert, Mérimée and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. He was a Fellow of the British Academy, Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques and the general editor of French Studies.
Francesco Manzini is a Fixed-Term Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of Stendhal's Parallel Lives (2004) and The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos (2011).
Content
Contents: Le Balzac de Flaubert - Time and instability in Nerval's Sylvie - Sylvie and L'Education sentimentale - L'Eternel Present dans les romans de Flaubert - 'Nous etions a l'etude ...' - The date of the projected epilogue to Madame Bovary - L'Education sentimentale et la pyramide - La Decomposition des personnages dans L'Education sentimentale - On Le Spleen de Paris - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam et Flaubert - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam histrion veridique de lui-meme - Stephane Mallarme: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam - Lectures croisees: Huysmans lecteur de Villiers et Villiers lecteur de Husymans.