Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850-1880

"Considering the crises of literary authority in nineteenth-century French literature against the backdrop of the Second Empire (1852-1870) and the aftermath of the bloody Paris Commune of 1871, Seth Whidden focuses on the phenomena - literary collaboration, parody, destabilized poetic form, the substitution of one poetic or narrative voice with that of the many - that enabled challenges to the traditional status of the writer and, by extension, the political authority that it reflected" --

List of contents

Introduction: Second Empire, Empire of “zut”; Chapter 1 Authority Dispersed in Collaboration; Chapter 2 Authority under Siege When Parody Meets Poetry; Chapter 3 Rimbaud Drowning Verse in a Sea of Multiplicity; Chapter 4 At 7,000 Meters without a Net: The Vertigo of Jules Verne’s Narrative Authority; conclusion Conclusion;

Summary

Considering the crises of literary authority in nineteenth-century French literature against the backdrop of the Second Empire (1852-1870) and the aftermath of the bloody Paris Commune of 1871, Seth Whidden focuses on the phenomena--literary collaboration, parody, destabilized poetic form.

Product details

• Authors: Seth Whidden, Whidden Seth
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2014
• EAN: 9781472444264
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-4426-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Literary studies: general, Language: reference and general, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets