Arthur B. Evans
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780853236948
- eISBN:
- 9781781380604
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853236948.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter discusses the relationship between Verne and the French literary canon. It begins in the 1863–1905 period, when the Académie Française refused to acknowledge Verne as a writer of ‘real’ ...
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This chapter discusses the relationship between Verne and the French literary canon. It begins in the 1863–1905 period, when the Académie Française refused to acknowledge Verne as a writer of ‘real’ literary merit despite his popular success. Verne's lack of ‘official’ recognition may be attributed to rigid and hierarchically defined notion of littérature itself during this period. The discussions then turn to the evolution of Verne's literary reputation during the period of 1905 to 1955, and the reassessment of Verne in the French literary canon during the 1960s and 1970s.Less
This chapter discusses the relationship between Verne and the French literary canon. It begins in the 1863–1905 period, when the Académie Française refused to acknowledge Verne as a writer of ‘real’ literary merit despite his popular success. Verne's lack of ‘official’ recognition may be attributed to rigid and hierarchically defined notion of littérature itself during this period. The discussions then turn to the evolution of Verne's literary reputation during the period of 1905 to 1955, and the reassessment of Verne in the French literary canon during the 1960s and 1970s.
Maurice Samuels
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804763844
- eISBN:
- 9780804773423
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804763844.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This book brings to light little-known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, it asserts, used fiction as a laboratory ...
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This book brings to light little-known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, it asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern world, and, in their stories and novels, responded to the stereotypical depictions of Jews in French culture while creatively adapting the forms and genres of the French literary tradition. They also offered innovative solutions to the central dilemmas of Jewish modernity in the French context—including how to reconcile their identities as Jews with the universalizing demands of the French revolutionary tradition. While theit solutions ranged from complete assimilation to a modern brand of orthodoxy, these writers collectively illustrate the creativity of a community in the face of unprecedented upheaval.Less
This book brings to light little-known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, it asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern world, and, in their stories and novels, responded to the stereotypical depictions of Jews in French culture while creatively adapting the forms and genres of the French literary tradition. They also offered innovative solutions to the central dilemmas of Jewish modernity in the French context—including how to reconcile their identities as Jews with the universalizing demands of the French revolutionary tradition. While theit solutions ranged from complete assimilation to a modern brand of orthodoxy, these writers collectively illustrate the creativity of a community in the face of unprecedented upheaval.
Charlie Louth
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198813231
- eISBN:
- 9780191893377
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198813231.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
Baudelaire forms the link onto this chapter on Rilke’s ‘prose-book’, where his experience of Paris is given fullest expression and where the French literary tradition is everywhere present. Malte is ...
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Baudelaire forms the link onto this chapter on Rilke’s ‘prose-book’, where his experience of Paris is given fullest expression and where the French literary tradition is everywhere present. Malte is read as in dialogue with decadence, especially with Huysmans’ À rebours. It is understood as a ‘poet’s novel’ in the sense that its techniques, preoccupations, and structures are not those of the novel as they are commonly understood, and make more sense when approached as a kind of prose poetry with connections to Baudelaire’s. There is also an extended comparison with Hamlet, as a way of elucidating the novel as a work of crisis, with its hero poised between ruin and revelation.Less
Baudelaire forms the link onto this chapter on Rilke’s ‘prose-book’, where his experience of Paris is given fullest expression and where the French literary tradition is everywhere present. Malte is read as in dialogue with decadence, especially with Huysmans’ À rebours. It is understood as a ‘poet’s novel’ in the sense that its techniques, preoccupations, and structures are not those of the novel as they are commonly understood, and make more sense when approached as a kind of prose poetry with connections to Baudelaire’s. There is also an extended comparison with Hamlet, as a way of elucidating the novel as a work of crisis, with its hero poised between ruin and revelation.
