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Biography and the Question of Literature in France

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ISBN-10: 0199270848

ISBN-13: 9780199270842

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ann Jefferson

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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 andcontestation, Ann Jefferson examines the way in which biographically-orientated texts have been engaged in questioning the definition of literature. At the same time, she tracks the evolving forms of biographical writing in…    
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Book details

List price: $190.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 442
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.45" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Ann Jefferson is professor of French literature at the University of Oxford and fellow and tutor in French at New College, Oxford. Her books include "Reading Realism in Stendhal" and "Biography and the Question of Literature in France".

Introduction
Lives and the Invention of Literature
Literature and the Use of Lives: A Prehistory
Rousseau's Life-Story and the Experience of Literature
Literary History and the Biography of Literature
The Nineteenth Century and the Culture of Biography
Biographical Business in the Century of Biography: Dictionaries and the Press
Biography Reclaimed: Gautier, Verlaine, and Mallarme and the Biographical irecueil i
Sainte-Beuve: Biography and the Invention of Literary Criticism
Poetry and the Life of the Poet
Hugo's iLes Contemplations i: Life, Death, and the Expansion of Poetry
Baudelaire: Life and the Production of Poetry
Biography into Literature
The Virtues of Marginality in Nerval's iIllumines i
Biography and Literary Principle
Inwardness, Experience, and the Turn to Fiction
Romancing Lives: Literary Creativity in the 1920s
Proust and the Lives of the Artists
Gide: Autobiography, Fiction, and the Literature of Experience
Acts of Literature: The Sacred, and the Writer's Life
Autobiography and the Sacred
Sartre and Biography: Existential Acts and the Desacralization of Literature
Heroes, Saints, and Generic Anachronisms
Genet's ichant d'amour i and the Lives of the Heroes
Pierre Michon's Lives of the Saints
The Writing Life
Vocation, Regime, and the Production of Literature
Life-Writing in