Andre gide and curiosity - Couverture souple

Reid, Victoria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042027266 ISBN 13 : 9789042027268

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This comprehensive exploration of curiosity in the fiction and life-writing of André Gide (18691951) is an important modernist contribution to the field of curiosity in literature and cultural studies more broadly. Curiosity was a credo for Gide. By observing the world and then manifesting in writing these observations, he stimulates the curiosity of readers, conceived as virtual conduits of a curiosity once his own. Using a thematic structure of sexual, scientific and writerly curiosity, this volume identifies processes of curiosity in the life-writing (including the travel-writing) which illuminate processes in the fiction, and vice versa. Theories of fetishism, gender and sexuality are applied to Gides corpus to illustrate his championing of a masculine curiosity of enlightenment and adventure over a feminised curiosité-défaillance of disobedience and harm, and to explore objects eliciting his incuriosity. Gides creativity is nourished by his curiosity, as close readings of his work informed by Melanie Kleins psychoanalytic writing on epistemophilia reveal. Curiosity is a rewarding, non-reductionist perspective from which the exceptional variety of Gides subject matter, style and genre can be more coherently understood. Research draws principally on the six Pléiade volumes of Gides uvre, published 19962009.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Victoria Reid has a BA in French and German from Worcester College, Oxford (2000), an MSc in EU Policy-Making from London School of Economics (2001) and a PhD in French Studies from the University of Reading (2005). She is currently Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9042027266
• ISBN 13: 9789042027268
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316