Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature [Paperback]

This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards. Connections are made with related work in a range of disciplines.Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Influence: Form, Subjects Time; Daniel Brewer 1. Voltaire, Dante and the Dynamics of Influence; Russell Goulbourne 2. Post-Revolutionary Uses of Pascal; Philip Knee 3. The Survival of Sade in French Literature of the 1950s; Pettine Coudurier 4. Jules Laforgue, Hartmann and Schopenhauer: From Influence to rewriting; Madeleine Guy 5. Text, Image and Music: Paul Val?ry's Melodrama S?miramis and the Influence of the Ballets Russes ; Natasha Grigorian 6. Influence as Appropriation of the Creative Gesture: Henri Matisse's Po?mes de Charles d'Orl?ans ; Kathryn Brown 7. Samuel Beckett's Funerary Sculpture; Claire Lozier 8. 'P?rimer d'avance': Blanchot, Derrida and Influence; John McKeane 9. Figuring Influence: Some Influential Metaphors in Derrida, Val?ry and Freud; Paul Earlie 10. Roland Barthes's Ghosts: Photobiographical Influence and Legacies; Fabien Arriberth-Narce 11. 'Le Cycle de Nestor': Patrick P?cherot's Rewriting of L?o Malet; Angela Kimyong?r 12. Jacques Roubaud's Rejection of Japoniste Influence: Tokyo infra-ordinaire ; Lucy O'Meara 13. Ghosts of Influence? Spectrality in the Novels of Marie Darrieussecq; Carine Fr?ville 14. 'Now I See Me, Now You Don't': Working with/against Paternal Influence in Marie Nimier's Photo-Photo ; Ana de Medeiros

This volume of essays considers various manifestations of influence in modern French literature and is a welcome addition to the Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature series. & this volume provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the term influence, & and it will interest litel³+