The Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie Vol. 1: Dreams of Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781907975486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 264 str.

Malcolm Bowie

Opis

Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as 'one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.' Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (1992-2002) and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006). He received numerous honours, was invited to speak all over the world, and in 2001 won the international Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism for his Proust Among the Stars. The essays and reviews in these volumes have never before been brought together. Ranging across literature, art, music, and psychoanalysis, they offer fresh insights into topics tackled in Bowie's books, and discuss quite new ones.
Volume I, Dreams of Knowledge, presents essays on memory, Proust, modern poetry (MallarmE, ValEry, Eluard), and psychoanalysis. Bowie explores the uncertainties of knowledge, the relationship between fantasy and experience, and the ways great writers, artists and thinkers represent these.
The Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie are edited by Alison Finch, Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Spis treści

1. Remembering the Future Part I: Proust 2. Proust and Psychoanalysis 3. Plutarch to Proust: Exemplary Lives 4. Proust and the Art of Brevity 5. Proust and Italian Painting 6. Reading Proust between the Lines Part II: Modern French Poetry 7. The Question of Un Coup de dés 8. Genius at Nightfall: Mallarmé’s ‘Quand l’ombre menaça de la fatale loi...’ 9. Towards a Poetics of Mallarmé’s Late Prose 10. Sea and Structure in fin-de-siècle France: Mallarmé and Debussy 11. Mallarmé: Serenity and Violence 12. Mallarmé’s Last Things 13. Paul Valéry: Dream and the Unconscious 14. Paul Eluard Part III: Psychoanalysis 15. Lacan and Mallarmé: Theory as Word-Play 16. Memory and Desire in Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents 17. Psychoanalysis and Art: The Winnicott Legacy 18. Freud and the Art of Biography 19. Introduction to Sigmund Freud, an Outline of Psychoanalysis

O autorze

Malcolm Bowie