The Hidden Reader : : Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert / / Victor Brombert.
Victor Brombert is an unrivaled interpreter of French literature; and the writers he considers in this latest book are ones with whom he has a long acqualntance. These essays--eleven of them appearing in English for the first time and some totally new--give us an acute analysis of the major figures...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Approaches
- Opening Signals in Narrative
- Natalie, or Balzac’s Hidden Reader
- La Peau de chagrin: The Novel as Threshold
- Hugo’s William Shakespeare: The Promontory and the Infinite
- The Edifice of the Book
- V.H.: The Effaced Author or the “I” of Infinity
- Sartre, Hugo, a Grandfather
- The Will to Ecstasy: Baudelaire’s “La Chevelure”
- “Le Cygne”: The Artifact of Memory
- Lyricism and Impersonality: The Example of Baudelaire
- Erosion and Discontinuity in Flaubert’s Novembre
- From Novembre to L’Education sentimentale: Communication and the Commonplace
- Idyll and Upheaval in L’Education sentimentale
- Flaubert and the Articulations of Polyvalence
- The Temptation of the Subject
- Stendhal, Reader of Rousseau
- Vie de Henry Brulard: Irony and Continuity
- T. S. Eliot and the Romantic Heresy
- Notes
- Credits
- Index