Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350160903 (ISBN)
With contributions from esteemed academics such as Christie McDonald, Pierre Saint-Amand, Susan Suleiman, and Jean-Jacques Nattiez, this book is a multidisciplinary collaboration between scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy, literature, musicology, and film studies. It uses examples chiefly from French culture and covers the Early Modern era to the twentieth century, while providing a thorough and representative array of theoretical and hermeneutical approaches.
Jérôme Brillaud is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester. His research is primarily on early modern French culture with a focus on philosophy. He is the author of Sombres Lumières (2011) and A Philosophy of Simplicity (2019). Virginie Greene is Professor of French at Harvard University. She is a specialist in medieval literature with strong interests in history and philosophy and Proust and his times. She is the author of Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy and Le Sujet et la Mort dans La Mort Artu.
List of Plates
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Encountering the Divine: On the Cognition of God in Early French Christian Humanism, Jacob Vance, New England Conservatory, USA
2. Event and Invention: Reading Montaigne and Rousseau Through Deleuze, Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA
3. Encountering Venture: Dissonance, Deceit, Autobiography, Pierre Saint-Amand, Yale University, USA
4. Colonial Encounters of “La Belle et la Bête”, Kylie Sago, Harvard University, USA
5. Missed Connections: Literary History and Saint-Aubin’s Le Danger des liaisons, Sanam Nader-Esfahani, Amherst College, USA
6. Rejected Encounters with Women Writers: The Case of Les Pensées errantes, Caleb Shelburne, Harvard University, USA
7. Encountering Women Writers and their Texts: Louise de Keralio’s Pioneering Anthology, Vicki Mistacco, Wellesley College, USA
8. Châtelet, Lavoisier, Charrière: Negotiating the Borderlands of the Republic of Letters, Ian Van Wye, Independent Scholar
9. Women’s Fictions and Translations in Support of Enlightenment Values, Monique Moser-Verrey, Université de Montréal, Canada
10. Stowe meets Thomas: What is Literary Property? Gary Wihl, Washington University, USA
11. Form Encounters Sense: the Semiological Dimensions of Wagnerian Anti-Semitism, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Université de Montréal, Canada
12. “Un autre moi-même”: Between the Self and the Other in Proust’s Correspondence, François Proulx, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
13. Ekphrasing as Encounter: “Try Say” with Georges Didi-Huberman and Hélène Cixous, Ginette Michaud, Université de Montréal, Canada
14. Caring for Encounters, Verena Conley, Harvard University, USA
15. Private Lives, Public History: Encountering the Filmmaker István Szabó, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Harvard University, USA
16. Creation and Re-creation Across Cultures and Disciplines: Tahitian Encounters from Bougainville to Gauguin and Beyond, Christie McDonald, Harvard University, USA
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.04.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
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| ISBN-13 | 9781350160903 / 9781350160903 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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