Bibliograph

Reading Paul Valéry, universe in mind, editor, Paul Gifford ; associate editor, Brian Stimpson

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Reading Paul Valéry, universe in mind, editor, Paul Gifford ; associate editor, Brian Stimpson

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reading Paul Valéry

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

797855670

Responsibility statement

editor, Paul Gifford ; associate editor, Brian Stimpson

Series statement

Cambridge studies in French, 58Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

universe in mind

Summary

Paul Valéry's work is a unique odyssey in the universe of ideas and mental forms. The most recently acknowledged - and the most private - of the masters of modernity, Valéry is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. He navigates freely within the mental galaxies known to scientists, poets, literary theorists, musicians, philosophers, historicans and social anthropologists, always concerned to explore the potential and limits of the human mind. Originally published in 1999, the present volume of essays by internationally recognised scholars offered the first comprehensive account of Valéry's work in English or French. It provided a series of readings bringing into focus the deeper coherence that animates what Valéry called his 'unitary mind in a thousand pieces', and offered perspectives on the immense range of his experimental and fragmentary writings. This book moved forward the frontiers of our understanding of Valéry's work, and substantially altered the way in which he was perceived.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Towards a biography of the mind / Ted Bastet -- Thinking-writing games of the Cahiers / Paul Gifford -- Paradigms of the self: Valéry's mythical models / Robert Pickering -- The fascination of science / Judith Robinson-Valéry -- An art of rethinking: Valéry's 'negative philosophy' / Régine Pietra -- The poetics of practice and theory / Michel Jarrety -- 'Esprit, Attente pure, éternel suspens ... ': Valéry's prose poetry / Stephen Romer -- Counter-fiction / Brian Stimpson -- The dialogues and Mon Faust: the inner politics of thought / William Marx -- Major poems: the voice of the subject / Jean-Michel Maulpoix -- Other voices: intertextuality and the art of pure poetry / Suzanne Nash -- Manuscript steps: 'Les Pas' / Florence de Lussy -- An aesthetics of the subject: music and the visual arts / Brian Stimpson -- Politics, history and the modern world / Nicole Celeyrette-Pietri -- Valéry and the feminine / Kirsteen Anderson -- Dream and the unconscious / Malcolm Bowie -- Self and other: Valéry's 'lost object of desire' / Paul Gifford

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