Biography and the question of literature in France / Ann Jefferson.

Containing critical readings of some major French authors in the light of the evolving relations between biography and literature, this book offers a history of French literature over a 300-year period, and also a discussion of biography - its forms, history, and functions.

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Main Author: Jefferson, Ann
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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505 0 |a Part I. 'Lives' and the invention of 'literature'. Literature and the use of 'lives': A prehistory -- Rousseau's life-story and the experience of literature -- Rousseau's life-story and the experience of literature -- Literary history and the biography of literature: Madame de Staël and Victor Hugo. Part II. The nineteenth century and the culture of biography. Biographical business in the century of biography: dictionaries and the press -- Biography reclaimed: Gautier, Verlaine, and Mallarmé and the biographical recueil -- Biography reclaimed: Gautier, Verlaine, and Mallarmé and the biographical recueil -- Sainte-Beuve: biography and the invention of literary criticism. Part III. Hugo's Les Contemplations: life, death, and the expansion of poetry -- Baudelaire: life and the production of poetry. Part IV. Biography into literature. The virtues of marginality in Nerval's Illuminés -- Biography and literary principle: Marcel Schwob's Vies imaginaires. Part V. Inwardness, experience, and the turn to fiction. Romancing lives: literary creativity in the 1920s -- Proust and the lives of the artists. Part VI. Acts of literature: the sacred and the writer's life. Michel Leiris: autobiography and the sacred -- Sartre and biography: existential acts and the desacralization of literature. Part VII. Heroes, saints, and generic anachronisms. Genet's chant d'amour and the lives of the heroes -- Pierre Michon's lives of the saints. Part VIII. The writing life. vocation, regime, and the production of literature: Max Jacob and Roland Barthes -- Life-writing in Roger Laporte and Jacques Roubaud. 
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