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1. Absent Without Leave: French Literature Under the Threat of War
   

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2. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture
   

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3. The Essays
   

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4. Fool's Errand (John Harvard Library/Belknap S.)
   

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5. The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative
   

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6. The Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry
   

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7. A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After
   

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8. The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing and Imprisonment
   

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9. Inventing Ireland (Na)
   

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10. Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities
    

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11. Tanner: Jane Austen (Paper)
    

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12. The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: v. 12
    

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13. The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight
    

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14. The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
    

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15. The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane and the Economies of Play
    

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16. Meaning in Henry James
    

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17. The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics
    

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18. Miorita: An Icon of Romanian Culture
    

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19. New Introduction to Greek
    

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20. On Flirtation (Paper) (Cobee)
    

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21. People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority
    

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22. A Perverse History of the Human Heart
    

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23. A Poetics
    

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24. Political Ethics and Public Office
    

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25. Prisoners of Hope: Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-74
    

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Absent without Leave: French Literature under the Threat of War Denis Hollier Manufacturer: Harvard University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Classics | Comic | Contemporary | Literary General | Criticism & Theory | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books French | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0674212703

Book Description

They were not the "Banquet Years," those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature--the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur--and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968. This literary history, the prehistory of postmodernism, is what Denis Hollier recovers in his interlocking studies of the main figures of French literary life before the age of anxiety gave way to the era of existentialist commitment.

Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Roger Caillois, André Malraux, the early Jean-Paul Sartre are the figures Hollier considers, writers torn between politics and the pleasures of the text. They appear here uneasily balancing the influences of the philosopher and the man of action. These studies convey the paradoxical heroism of writers fighting for a world that would extend no rights or privileges to writers, writing for a world in which literature would become a reprehensible frivolity. If the nineteenth century was that of the consecration of the writer, this was the time for their sacrificial death, and Hollier captures the comical pathos of these writers pursuing the ideal of "engagement" through an exercise in dispossession. His work identifies, as none has before, the master plot for literature that was crafted in the 1940s, a plot in which we are still very much entangled.

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