Mimesis and theory

Stanford University Press

2008

xxvi, 310 p.

Cultural memory in the present

9780804755801

History in Saint-John Perse --Valéry and Stendhal --Classicism and Voltaire's historiography --Pride and passion in the contemporary novel --Stendhal and Tocqueville --Memoirs of a dutiful existentialist : Simone de Beauvoir --Marcel Proust --Marivaudage, hypocrisy, and bad faith --Formalism and structuralism in literature and the human sciences --Racine, poet of glory --Monsters and demigods in Hugo --Bastards and the antihero in Sartre --Critical reflections on literary studies --Narcissism : the Freudian myth demythified by Proust --Theory and its terrors --Love and hate in Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain --Innovation and repetition --Mimetic desire in the underground : Feodor Dostoevsky --Conversion in literature and Christianity --The passionate oxymoron in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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