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Biography and the Question of Literature in France (Hardcover, New)
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Biography and the Question of Literature in France (Hardcover, New)
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This book takes a fresh look at the relations between literature
and biography by tracing the history of their connections through
three hundred years of French literature. The starting point for
this history is the eighteenth century when the term 'biography'
first entered the French language and when the word 'literature'
began to acquire its modern sense of writing marked by an aesthetic
character. Arguing that the idea of literature is inherently open
to revision and contestation, Ann Jefferson examines the way in
which biographically-orientated texts have been engaged in
questioning and revising definitions of literature. At the same
time, she tracks the evolving forms of biographical writing in
French culture, and proposes a reappraisal of biography in terms
not only of its forms, but also of its functions. Although Ann
Jefferson's book has powerful theoretical implications for both
biography and the literary, it is first and foremost a history,
offering a comprehensive new account of the development of French
literature through this dual focus on the question of literature
and on the relations between literature and biography. It offers
original readings of major authors and texts in the light of these
concerns, beginning with Rousseau and ending with 'life-writing'
contemporary authors such as Pierre Michon and Jacques Roubaud.
Other authors discussed include Mme de Stael, Victor Hugo,
Sainte-Beuve, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Baudelaire, Nerval, Mallarme,
Schwob, Proust, Gide, Leiris, Sartre, Genet, Barthes, and Roger
Laporte.
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