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Reading Paul Valery - Universe in Mind

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Klappentext Originally published in 1999! this was the first comprehensive account of the work of the French modernist writer Paul Valery. Zusammenfassung The most recently acknowledged - and the most private - of the masters of modernity, Paul Valéry is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. This 1999 volume of essays by internationally recognised scholars offered the first comprehensive account of Valéry's work in English or French. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Self-Science: 1. Towards a biography of the mind Ned Bastet; 2. Thinking-writing games of the Cahiers Paul Gifford; 3. Paradigms of the self: Valéry's mythical models Robert Pickering; 4. The fascination of science Judith Robinson-Valéry; 5. An art of rethinking: Valéry's 'negative philosophy' Régine Pietra; Part II. Self-Writings: 6. The poetics of practice and theory M. Jarrety; 7. 'Esprit, Attente, pur, éternel suspens ... ' Valéry's prose poetry Stephen Romer; 8. The Dialogues and Mon Faust: Valéry's republic of the mind William Marx; 9. Counter-fiction Brian Stimpson; 10. Major poems: the voice of the subject J.-M. Maulpoix; 11. Other voices: intertextuality and the art of pure poetry Suzanne Nash; 12. Manuscript steps: 'Les Pas' Florence de Lussy; Part III. Body, Mind, World: 13. An aesthetics of the subject: music and the visual arts Brian Stimpson; 14. Politics, history and the modern world Nicole Celeyrette-Pietri; 15. Valéry and the feminine Kirsteen Anderson; 16. Dream and the unconscious Malcolm Bowie; 17. Self and other: Valéry's 'lost object of desire' Paul Gifford; Conclusion.

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Authors Paul (University of St Andrews Gifford, Paul Stimpson Gifford
Assisted by Paul Gifford (Editor), Michael Sheringham (Editor), Brian Stimpson (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 21.01.1999
 
EAN 9780521584944
ISBN 978-0-521-58494-4
No. of pages 334
Series Cambridge Studies in French
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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