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The Writing of Melancholy - Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism (Hardcover)
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The Writing of Melancholy - Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism (Hardcover)
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Ross Chambers, an eminent critic of French literature, proposes an
original theory of the development of French modernism. His bold
rereading of mid-nineteenth-century texts, from Madame Bovary to
Les Fleurs du mal, leads to a reconception of the workings of
narrative - in themselves and in relation to history. Chambers
makes a distinction between a text's formal mode of address
(narrative function) and the reflexive devices by which it invites
interpretation (textual function). The works he considers reveal a
discontinuity or disjunction between these two functions and as a
result seem uncentered, their manner of conveying meaning oddly
blurred. In this they recall the general malaise that swept through
French society in the wake of the failed revolution of 1848.
Chambers shows how the internal opposition of narrative and textual
function, often read as a willful resistance to this historical
ennui, is actually its symptom. Pursuing this argument through
works by Flaubert, Nerval, Baudelaire, Gautier, and Hugo, Chambers
uses theoretical insights to illuminate textual details, which in
turn clarify and advance his theory. The process yields a subtle
and compelling meditation on the powers of writing and reading,
which contributes significantly to the debate about the historical
status of literary texts. At the heart of the book is the concept
of oppositionality; in this respect The Writing of Melancholy is
both a necessary complement to Chambers's previous work in Room for
Maneuver and a discreet homage by a member of the post-1968
generation to those who were thirty-something in 1848. Originally
published in French, the book has been revised and expanded to
include an entirely newchapter on Gerard de Nerval's "Sylvie".
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