Stendhal: The Red and the Black and the Charterhouse of Parma

ISBN-13: 9781138439986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Roger Pearson

Opis

The "Modern Literatures in Perspective" series aims to help the reader study texts in isolation and in context by selecting the most representative reactions to the texts, from their first appearance, to date. The historical and cultural context in which each text was produced is also outlined.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Letters to a friend  2. The Red and the Black - topicality and realism, plausibility and representation  3.The Charterhouse of Parma - mirror or myth?, psychoanalysis and story-telling; perspectives  Part 1: Nineteenth-century views  4. 1831 - Balzac's response to The Red and the Black  5. 1832 - from Stendhal's own draft review of The Red and the Black  6. 1840 - from Balzac's review of The Charterhouse of Parma  7. 1854 - Sainte-Beuve on The Red and the Black  8. 1864 - Hippolyte Taine on characterization and style  9. 1880 - Emile Zola on Stendhal the psychologist  10. 1882 - Paul Bourget on Standhal and The Red and the Black  11. 1892 - Emile Faguet on The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma  Part 2: Modern readings  12. Realism - Erich Auerbach on The Red and the Black, Georges Blin on realism and point of view  13. Thematic criticism - Jean-Pierre Richard on Stendhal's imaginary universe  14. Existentialism and Marxism - Victor Brombert on freedom in The Charterhouse of Parma, Pierre Barberis on politics in The Charterhouse of Parma  15. Structuralism and language - Shoshana Felman on madness and intoxication, Michel Crouzet on language and silence  16. Psychoanalysis and narratology - Roland Barthes on The Charterhouse of Parma, Peter Brooks on The Red and the Black  17. Feminism and gender criticism - Carol Mossman on The Red and the Black  18. Readers and representation - Ann Jefferson on reading The Red and the Black, Christopher Prendergast on the ethics of verisimilitude.

O autorze

Roger Pearson is Professor of Frenchat the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques