Le Moment Stendhal

By (author) François Vanoosthuyse Series edited by Pierre Glaudes Series edited by Paolo Tortonese Series edited by Xavier Bourdenet

Book cover: Le Moment Stendhal

Extent: 464 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Etudes romantiques et dix-neuviemistes

Series volume number: 7, 57

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2017)

ISBN: 9782812436086

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $80.00

On back order

There is a “Stendhal scenario” which the author establishes in his oeuvre himself, and which links him to a character. Placed in its successive settings, this oeuvre also presents itself as a series of concrete problems: how to write under the Empire, situate oneself in the Restoration, and live and write in a democracy.

Francois Vanoosthuyse is a lecturer in French literature and the didactics of French as a foreign language at Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3 University. Following a thesis which focused on the mimetic performances of Stendhalian narratives, he has published numerous articles devoted to the literary life of the early nineteenth century in France as well as to questions of literary theory.

  • By (author) François Vanoosthuyse
  • Series edited by Pierre Glaudes
  • Series edited by Paolo Tortonese
  • Series edited by Xavier Bourdenet

Il s'agit d'interroger le scenario Stendhal , en proposant une analyse de la carriere, des postures et des oeuvres d'Henri Beyle, dans leurs moments et leurs significations respectives. La performance de l'ecrivain n'est pas simplement annexee au circuit court de ses intuitions fondamentales, de ses mimiques et de ses gouts, mais aussi au circuit long qui le relie a son univers de references, a l'horizon concret de son experience et de son action, aux evenements politiques tels qu'il les a ou ne les a pas racontes. L'oeuvre est consideree dans sa diversite formelle et conceptuelle, comme une traversee de l'histoire, entee sur une serie de questions litteraires, sociales et politiques.
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