Defying gravity : Jean Paulhan's interventions in twentieth-century French intellectual history
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Defying gravity : Jean Paulhan's interventions in twentieth-century French intellectual history
（SUNY series, the margins of literature）
State University of New York Press, c1998
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index
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Description
Defying Gravity is a major reassessment of the work of Jean Paulhan within the context of his own times, as well as in the light of contemporary debates in literary theory. Best known for his long-serving editorship of the influential Parisian literary review, La Nouvelle Revue Française, Paulhan is now widely acknowledged as one of the most central yet least understood figures of twentieth-century French intellectual and literary history. Syrotinski's study admirably performs the dual purpose of introducing a genuinely innovative and distinctive writer to a general anglophone readership, while engaging critically with his texts and their reception. Syrotinski's readings of Paulhan are both original and provocative, and firmly establish him as an unavoidable point of reference for twentieth-century French literary history and theory.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction.
Figures of Duplicity Paulhan and Contemporary Literary Theory
1. Allegories of Ethnography
i. Malagasy Proverbs
ii. Sacred Language
2. Underwriting the Personal: Modesty and the récits
i. Jean Paulhan and Jacques Maast
ii. Modesty, Mania and Other Wor(l)ds
iii. Coda: Progress in Love?
3. Blanchot reading Paulhan
i. Who Said Anything About Terror?
ii. Poetic Justice
4. Resistance, Collaboration, and the Postwar Literary Purge in France
5. Domestic Spaces, Aesthetic Traces
i. Cubes, Cubes, and More Cubes
ii. Painting by Letters
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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