Limits of Narrative - Essays on Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud and Mallarme

Klappentext This book examines the problematic area of narrative structure under conditions of severe stress. Zusammenfassung This book examines the problematic area of narrative structure under conditions of severe stress. Each of the four authors, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud and Mallarmé, is shown to be concerned with the tension between narrative coherence as a desirable goal and an unfortunate check placed on the 'free' play of fantasy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Danaides Vessel: on reading Baudelaire's allegories; 2. On certain relations: figures of sexuality in Baudelaire; 3. Emma's stories: narrative, repetition and desire in Madame Bovary; 4. The autobiography of rhetoric: on reading Rimbaud's Une Saison en enfer; 5. False confusions: ficitons of masculine desire in Mallarmé's 'L'Aprés-midi d'un faune'; 6. The trials of authority under Louis Bonaparte; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel Wing
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521114158
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11415-8
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies