{"product_id":"genealogies-of-the-text-literature-psychoanalysis-and-politics-in-modern-france-hardback-9780521472135","title":"Genealogies of the Text; Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France (Hardback) 9780521472135","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGenealogies of the Text\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1995 book is a provocative meditation on literature, ethics, and the experience of the French in World War II.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeffrey Mehlman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521472135, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 September 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e276 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… heuristic value of Mehlman's approach is undeniable …' Contemporary European History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this 1995 book, which includes a substantial introduction, Jeffrey Mehlman confronts the politically devastating resonances in the work of several leading French writers. The essays focus on the series of enigmas surrounding the 'Blanchot affair' - a scandal provoked by Mehlman's revelation in 1977 that Maurice Blanchot, one of the tutelary figures of contemporary French thought, had in the 1930s been a prominent fascist journalist. Mehlman takes the issue of Blanchot's forgotten political essays deep into the most revered - and misunderstood - of his novels, L'Arrêt de mort. Using this affair as a point of departure, Mehlman sheds light on the question of the usability of psychoanalysis for literary readings (examining, for example, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Valéry); he also investigates the ideological and political connotations of similar literary and theoretical material. The volume as a whole provides a consistently provocative meditation on literature, ethics, and the experience of the French in World War II.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Craniometry and criticism: notes on a Valéryan criss-cross\u003cbr\u003e 3. Literature and hospitality: Klossowski's Hamann\u003cbr\u003e 4. Literature and collaboration: Benoist-Méchin's return to Proust\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote' again\u003cbr\u003e 6. Iphigenia 38: deconstruction, history and the case of L'Arrêt de mort\u003cbr\u003e 7. Writing and deference: the politics of literary adulation\u003cbr\u003e 8. Perspectives: on Paul de Man and Le Soir\u003cbr\u003e 9. Prosopopeia revisited\u003cbr\u003e 10. The paranoid style in French prose: Lacan with Léon Bloy\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Holocaust comedies of 'Emile Ajar'\u003cbr\u003e 12. Pour Sainte-Beuve: Maurice Blanchot, 10 March 1942\u003cbr\u003e 13. Flowers of evil: Paul Morand, the Collaboration and literary history\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Series list.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007654809880,"sku":"9780521472135","price":79.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521472135i_04be86e3-bb9d-4553-b2de-40db97ce1732.jpg?v=1691382771","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/genealogies-of-the-text-literature-psychoanalysis-and-politics-in-modern-france-hardback-9780521472135","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}