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The Hidden Reader : Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert / Victor Brombert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brombert, Victor, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors and readers.
- Esthétique de la réception.
- Französische Literatur.
- French literature.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Authors and readers--France--History--19th century.
- French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
- Local Subjects:
- Authors and readers--France--History--19th century.
- French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- Reprint 2013
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Victor Brombert is an unrivaled interpreter of French literature; and the writers he considers in this latest book are ones with whom he has a long acqualntance. These essays--eleven of them appearing in English for the first time and some totally new--give us an acute analysis of the major figures of the nineteenth century and a splendid lesson in criticism. Brombert shows how a text works--its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words--and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare, Sartre reading Hugo, Stendhal reading Rousseau, T. S. Eliot misreading Baudelaire, or Baudelaire, Balzac, and Flaubert reading their own sensibilities. This book is a sterling example of the finest kind of literary criticism--wise, intelligent, responsive, sympathetic--that reveals central aspects of the creative process and returns the reader joyfully to the texts themselves.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Approaches
- Opening Signals in Narrative
- Natalie, or Balzac's Hidden Reader
- La Peau de chagrin: The Novel as Threshold
- Hugo's William Shakespeare: The Promontory and the Infinite
- The Edifice of the Book
- V.H.: The Effaced Author or the "I" of Infinity
- Sartre, Hugo, a Grandfather
- The Will to Ecstasy: Baudelaire's "La Chevelure"
- "Le Cygne": The Artifact of Memory
- Lyricism and Impersonality: The Example of Baudelaire
- Erosion and Discontinuity in Flaubert's Novembre
- From Novembre to L'Education sentimentale: Communication and the Commonplace
- Idyll and Upheaval in L'Education sentimentale
- Flaubert and the Articulations of Polyvalence
- The Temptation of the Subject
- Stendhal, Reader of Rousseau
- Vie de Henry Brulard: Irony and Continuity
- T. S. Eliot and the Romantic Heresy
- Notes
- Credits
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-73156-5
- OCLC:
- 1013951838
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