André Gide and the Codes of Homotextuality
Author: Emily S. Apter
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterpretatie van Gides werk, o.a. aan de hand van ideeën van Roland Barthes.
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Andre Gide
Author: David H. Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1315505126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a selection of some of the most significant critical work written on Andre Gide during his lifetime and since. As a major writer of the twentieth-century, his life and creative output, as well as his role as a leading intellectual, attracted comment from prominent contemporaries and continues to have relevance today. Containing a substantial introduction and overview, this compilation offers a variety of illuminating perspectives that will inform and guide the general and specialist reader.
Andre Gide's Politics
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1349625329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the peak of his career, after having established himself as an accomplished writer, astute moraliste, and the foremost spokesperson of his generation for personal freedom and self-realization, Gide became aware, first, that his particular brand of bourgeois individualism was becoming increasingly irrelevant in the contemporary world and, second, that social commitment and even revolution could serve as a powerful source of inspiration and self-renewal. Over a ten-year period that began in the 1920s and ended with his public break with the Soviet Union in 1936, Gide the committed intellectual interacted with society in ways that were for him unprecedented. These essays examine the outcomes of Gide s evolving commitment to a host of controversial issues ranging from the sexual to the political, from the literary to the social.
The Frail Social Body
Author: Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-02-16
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780520923485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there—journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others—worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. Carolyn J. Dean shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct the "bodily integrity" of the nation by pointing to the dangers of homosexuality and pornography. Dean's provocative work demonstrates the importance of this concept of bodily integrity in France and shows how it was ultimately used to define first-class citizenship. Dean presents fresh historical material—including novels and medical treatises—to show how fantasies about the body-violating qualities of homosexuality and pornography informed social perceptions and political action. Although she focuses on the period from 1890 to 1945, Dean also establishes the relevance of these ideas to current preoccupations with pornography and sexuality in the United States.
Conrad and Gide
Author: Russell West-Pavlov
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-04-17
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9004650865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines the relations between the work of the Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad and the French Nobel Prize winner André Gide. Gide's translation of Conrad's Typhoon is read as a work belonging paradoxically to the oeuvres of both writers, where their respective preoccupations meet with illuminating results. Focusing also on other major works by Conrad and Gide, the study suggests that the intertextual and personal interaction between these two masters of 20th Century fiction was governed by processes of identification and projection, conflict between master and disciple and a consequent resistant reading of texts, and confrontation with linguistic and cultural heterogeneity. Issues of translation theory, psychoanalysis and intertextuality are brought together to offer a glimpse of a possible dialogue between literature and ethics. This study will be of interest to students and researchers in English, French and Comparative Literature.
Gide's Bent
Author: Michael Lucey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0195080866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study investigates the place of sexuality in the writings of Andre Gide. Focusing on his writing of the 1920s and 1930s, the years in which Gide wrote most openly about his homosexuality, and also the years of his most notable left-wing political activity, the work interrogates both the political content of his reflections on his homosexuality and the ways in which his sexuality inflected his political interests.
Napoleonic Friendship
Author: Brian Joseph Martin
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1584659440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book-length study of the origin of queer soldiers in modern France
Figures of Alterity
Author: Lawrence R. Schehr
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780804743334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the extension of realist writing toward alterity, toward otherness, in its ongoing efforts to enable individuals to speak and be heard correctly. Through a series of close readings of six authors from Balzac to Proust, the author shows the ways realist narrative engages the problem of bringing the other into the realm of the discursively representable. The acts of representation involved in that development were not necessarily coterminous with either the representation of the exotic and its attendant stereotypes or with the representation of individuals themselves. The representation of the other was the extension of discourse to what was previously unrepresentable. The author argues that the unrepresentable is often perceived as oppositional because of the structuring of discourse by hierarchies and metaphysics, whereby any bivalent pair is made into an oppositional pair.
Andre Gide, Grief and the Father
Author: John J. Parisot
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeckett and the Modern Novel
Author: John Bolin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1107029848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Bolin challenges the notion that Beckett's fiction is best understood through philosophical or Anglo-Irish literary contexts.
