Name: The Limits of Narrative: Essays on Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud and Mallarme (Cambridge Studies in French)
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Author: Wing, Nathaniel
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The Limits of Narrative: Essays on Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud and Mallarme (Cambridge Studies in French)

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Physical Book

Author

Nathaniel Wing

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN

0521114152

ISBN13

9780521114158

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Synopsis "The Limits of Narrative: Essays on Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud and Mallarme (Cambridge Studies in French) "

This book examines the problematic area of narrative structure under conditions of severe stress. Each of the four authors is shown to be concerned with the tension between narrative coherence as a desirable goal and an unfortunate check placed on the 'free' play of fantasy. This tension produces powerful disruptions of literary form in the lyric (Baudelaire, Mallarmé), prose poetry (Baudelaire, Rimbaud) and the novel (Flaubert) which are examined here. A final chapter draws out some of the historical implications of these readings in a discussion of Baudelaire's and Flaubert's trials for obscenity and of Marx's writings on France from 1848 to 1871. Professor Wing demonstrates that all these texts retain an unstable balance between earlier modes of thought, feeling and expression and the depersonal, fragmented modern text. He revises notions of modernity and invites us to reconsider traces of earlier forms of writing in more canonically modern texts.

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