The writing of melancholy : modes of opposition in early French modernism
1993, First Edition. Chicago, London : The University of Chicago Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #419595
ISBN: 0226100707
Physical description; xv, 239 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 24 cm. Notes; Translation by Mary Seidman Trouille of : Mélancolie et opposition. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index. Contents; Preface -- Preface to the English translation -- 1. On being Nouveau -- 2. Anger vaporized -- 3. The duplicity of power and the power of duplicity -- 4. Suicide without pistols -- 5. Poetry in the Asiatic mode -- 6. Memory and melancholy -- 7. Repetition and irony -- In/conclusion. Reading the blur -- Notes -- Index. Subjects; French literature 19th century History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) France. Melancholy in literature. Polarity in literature. Memory in literature.
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