Heroism and Passion in Literature: Studies in Honour of Moya Longstaffe

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
• VerfasserIn: Gargett, Graham,
• TeilnehmendeR: Longstaffe, Moya; Gargett, Graham
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : Rodopi, 2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This volume, prompted by the publication in 1999 of Moya Longstaffe's remarkable study, Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature: Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel, further investigates and analyses the multiple appearances of Passion and Heroism in literature. It pursues the exploration of these themes in a variety of cultures (English, French, German, Spanish), genres, and critical approaches. In addition, the chronological span represented is extremely wide. Contributions range from La Fontaine, Molie`re and Voltaire to Rimbaud and Camus; from Baudelaire to Beckett; from Wagner to Goytisolo. This very diversity gives necessary context, providing scope for reflection and analysis. Although passion seems timeless, can heroism have any real meaning - apart from an individual and existential one - in our postmodern age? Has a notion at the centre of European culture for so many centuries really disappeared from our intellectual and cultural universe? This volume will be of interest to all students of literature, whatever their critical or linguistic allegiance, since it focuses on the varying manifestations of two vital ingredients of all societies and cultures.

Table of Contents

Notes on the ContributorsMoya Longstaffe: A TributeBibliography of Moya Longstaffe's WritingsIntroductionPart One The Early Modern PeriodH.T. BARNWELL: Heroic Discourse? A Note on Racine's Be´re´niceAngela RYAN: The Lost Heroine and the Memetics of Cultural Inscription in Euripides's Hippolytus and Racine's Phe`dreJohn CAMPBELL: The Twilight of Heroism: Ambition and Ambitions in La Princesse de Cle`vesRobert McBRIDE : Le He´ros molie´resque et les pie`ges du langageJane McKEE; A Passion for the Scriptures: The Biblical Sonnets of Laurent DrelincourtMarite´ OUBRIER : La Fontaine: Anti-Hero or Reluctant Hero?Graham GARGETT : Voltaire's L'Inge´nu, the Journal chre´tien and Saint-Foix: A New Source for Hercule de Kerkabon?Part Two The Nineteenth CenturyBrian Keith-Smith: A Germanic Hero Par Excellence? Richard Wagner in ParisAnne JUDGE and Solange LAMOTHE: Stendhal's Style and the Expression of Passion and HeroismElisabeth M. LILLIE: Heroes of the Mind: The Intellectual Elite in the Work of Ernest RenanJohn McCANN : Heroism and Villainy in Les Fleurs du MalHenri GODIN : Bel-Ami: poste´rite´ d'un he´rosPart Three The Twentieth CenturyMarie-Jose´phine WHITAKER : Rimbaud, Claudel: la passion du voyageAlan GABBEY: The 'Last Great Voice of Soldierly Heroism' and the Philosophy of Rationalism: Pe´guy on DescartesMichael R. JONES: The Passion of Adam von Trott: the Heroic Stance of the ForeignMinister of the German ResistanceJohn H. GILLESPIE: Camus's Passionate HeroesGerard M. MACKLIN: (Un)Sung Heroes in the Drama of Samuel BeckettAngela CHAMBERS: Prophets and Heroes: Ideology and Aesthetics in Aime´ Ce´saire's PoeticStanley BLACK: The Author as Hero in the New World Order: The Power of Fictionality in Goytisolo's El sitio de los sitiosRichard YORK: Evelyn Waugh's Farewell to HeroismPhilip TAYLOR: A Passion for Debate: French Communist Party Internal Opposition from Garaudy to FitermanPo´l O´ DOCHARTAIGH: Jewish Outsiders as Anti-Heroes in Jurek Becker's NovelsIndex.