This collection explores and reviews the work of the major French critics of the twentieth century [NB: as of 1972], an area of intellectual endeavor surprisingly neglected in English-speaking countries. Each chapter examines an important critic's work or a coherent body of criticism, and each is supplemented by an annotated bibliography of works by and about its subject.
Included are essays on:
Maurice Blanchot
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Geneva School
Structuralism
Roland Barthes
Albert Thibaudet
Georges Bataille
Gaston Bachelard
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Jean Paulhan
Breton & the surrealists
Language
English
Pages
405
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Release
May 01, 1974
ISBN
0226758559
ISBN 13
9780226758558
Modern French Criticism: From Proust and Valéry to Structuralism
This collection explores and reviews the work of the major French critics of the twentieth century [NB: as of 1972], an area of intellectual endeavor surprisingly neglected in English-speaking countries. Each chapter examines an important critic's work or a coherent body of criticism, and each is supplemented by an annotated bibliography of works by and about its subject.
Included are essays on:
Maurice Blanchot
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Geneva School
Structuralism
Roland Barthes
Albert Thibaudet
Georges Bataille
Gaston Bachelard
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Jean Paulhan
Breton & the surrealists