Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France - Rilegato

Jenson, Deborah

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ISBN 10: 0801867231 ISBN 13: 9780801867231

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

Jenson (French, U. of New Mexico) argues that the politics of the social in France of the first half of the 19th century were mediated by an ethos of social likeness: of learning to see past differences rather than learning to see, respect, and accommodate differences. French Romanticism was a highly politicized literary and cultural moment, she says, but its politicism eluded representation in terms of difference. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Recensione:

"In this profound, engaging book, Deborah Jenson develops a comprehensive, highly original analysis of French romanticism... This exemplary study should greatly influence nineteenth-century French studies and the theory of social mimesis." -- Laurence M. Porter, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

"This is an absolutely brilliant and original study of post-revolutionary France." -- Barbara Johnson, Harvard University

"In this elegantly written and beautifully conceived work, Deborah Jenson reclaims the notion of mimesis to demonstrate how it informs nineteenth-century poetry and prose, epistemology and politics. This work is a dazzlingly ambitious and original attempt to reconceive nineteenth-century French literature as a working-out of the trauma inflicted on the national psyche by the Revolution and its legacies. It is by far the most pleasurable book about pain I have ever read." -- Naomi Schor, Yale University

"Read this book if you are interested in the legacy of the French Revolution... it will not disappoint." -- Annabelle M. Rea, French Review

L'autore:

Deborah Jenson is an assistant professor of French at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0801867231
• ISBN 13: 9780801867231
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 294