This 1984 book was the first to investigate the full implications of Paul Valery's interest in the relationship between music and poetry. The book is more of a survey of all that Valery had to say on music; it examines in detail the influence of such music upon his work as a poet. The structure of the book comprises three distinct phases of argument. In the first part Dr Stimpson details Valery's contacts with the major developments in twentieth-century French music, and reveals particularly close relationshops with a number of outstanding composers and performers. Part II explores Valery's...
This 1984 book was the first to investigate the full implications of Paul Valery's interest in the relationship between music and poetry. The book is ...
The most recently acknowledged--and the most private--of the masters of modernity, Paul Valery is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. He navigates freely within the mental galaxies known to scientists, poets, literary theorists, musicians, philosophers, historians and social anthropologists, always concerned with exploring the potential and limits of the human mind. This volume of essays by internationally recognized scholars offers the first comprehensive account in English or French of Valery's work. It brings into focus the deeper coherence that animates what Valery called his...
The most recently acknowledged--and the most private--of the masters of modernity, Paul Valery is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. He naviga...
Cet ouvrage presente une analyse de l ecriture poetique de Paul Valery selon la perspective de la critique genetique. A travers l examen des poemes en prose de jeunesse et des manuscrits de La Jeune Parque et de La Pythie, Paul Valery: L Ecriture en devenir etudie pour la premiere fois la theorie et la pratique de la composition chez Valery comme processus en evolution continue. Animee par une tension soutenue entre un regard de puissance et la presence de plus en plus insistante de la musique intime du moi, la - poetique du faire - qui en ressort est envisagee comme...
Cet ouvrage presente une analyse de l ecriture poetique de Paul Valery selon la perspective de la critique genetique. A travers l examen des poemes en...
Robinson Crusoe explores Defoe's story, the legend it captured, the universal desire which underlies the myth and a range of modern re-writings which reveal a continued fascination with the problematic character of this narrative. Whether envisaged as an heroic rejection of the old world order, a piece of pre-colonialist propaganda or a tale raising archetypal problems of 'otherness' and 'inequality', the mythic value of Crusoe has become a pretext over many centuries for an examination of some of the fundamental problems of existence. This collection of essays examines, from a wide range of...
Robinson Crusoe explores Defoe's story, the legend it captured, the universal desire which underlies the myth and a range of modern re-writings which ...
