Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature [Texte imprimé] / edited by Thomas Baldwin, James Fowler and Ana de Medeiros

"What is meant by 'influence' in the realm of literature, art, music or ideas? How is it related to concepts such as pastiche or parody? Self-evidently, our understanding of any 'past' work depends on contemporary methods of reading; but does it makes sense, therefore, to claim that influence can be retroactive? Harold Bloom used the term 'the anxiety of influence' as the title of a famous study, but his is only one of many theorizations that span the modern era. This collection of essays examines a variety of texts written in French from the eighteenth century onwards, together with a number of visual and musical works. (All quotations in other languages are followed by translations in English.) The contributors elucidate, question and/or draw on major theories of influence, in new readings of well-known works. Whilst all engage with French and/or francophone culture, the works examined open cross-disciplinary perspectives"-- Provided by publisher

Bibliogr. p. 208-217

Machine generated contents note: -- 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 Vale;ry's Melodrama Se;miramis and the Influence of the Ballets Russes; Natasha Grigorian -- 6. Influence as Appropriation of the Creative Gesture: Henri Matisse's Poèmes de Charles d'Orle;ans; Kathryn Brown -- 7. Samuel Beckett's Funerary Sculpture; Claire Lozier -- 8. 'Périmer d'avance': Blanchot, Derrida and Influence; John McKeane -- 9. Figuring Influence: Some Influential Metaphors in Derrida, Vale;ry and Freud; Paul Earlie -- 10. Roland Barthes's Ghosts: Photobiographical Influence and Legacies; Fabien Arriberth-Narce -- 11. 'Le Cycle de Nestor': Patrick Pécherot's Rewriting of Léo Malet; Angela Kimyongür -- 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 Fre;ville -- 14. 'Now I See Me, Now You Don't': Working with/against Paternal Influence in Marie Nimier's Photo-Photo; Ana de Medeiros