Lucidity: Essays in Honour of Alison Finch

ISBN-13: 9780367598402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 196 str.

Ian James; Emma Wilson

Opis

This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally.

Spis treści

1 Lucidity and Tact  2 ‘A propos, ou hors de propos, il n’importe’: Relevance Theory and Montaigne  3 Lucidity and Misrecognition in Late Corneille  4 Flaubert: Lucidity, Mysticism, and the Senses  5 Lucidity, Modernity: Mallarme, Morisot, and Zola  6 Easy Reading: Zola’s Kitsch  7 The Fog of War: Impressionism and Zola Revisited  8 Baudelaire, Bonnefoy, Jeanne Duval: Poetry and Ethical Lucidity  9 The Peculiar Lucidities of Verse Form: Translation as an Operation of Consciousness  10 Marcel Proust, On and Off  11 Seeing Clearly into the Past: Sartre and Beauvoir at War  12 Nathalie Sarraute’s Domestic Spaces: Windows, Walls, and Blinding Lucidity  13 ‘Et la raison vacilla’: Sociality as Burden in Tahar Djaout and Mohammed Dib  14 ‘The open sea but not the wilderness’: Light and Clarity in the Late Work of Colette and Agnes Varda  15 Varda’s Hermitage: The Madonna del parto and La Pointe Courte

 

O autorze

Ian James is Reader in Modern French Literature and Thought at Downing College, Cambridge, and Emma Wilson Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.