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BL
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702655
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b524844
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| Main Entry
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Syrotinski, Michael,1957-
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| Title & Author
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Defying gravity : : Jean Paulhan's interventions in twentieth-century French intellectual history /\ Michael Syrotinski.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c1998.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series, the margins of literature
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| Page. NO
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x, 208 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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079143639X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0791436403 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780791436394 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9780791436400 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction. Figures of Duplicity -- Allegories of Ethnography -- Malagasy Proverbs -- Sacred Language -- Underwriting the Personal: Modesty and the recits -- Jean Paulhan and Jacques Maast -- Modesty, Mania and Other Wor(l)ds -- Coda: Progress in Love? -- Blanchot reading Paulhan -- Who Said Anything About Terror? -- Poetic Justice -- Resistance, Collaboration, and the Postwar Literary Purge in France -- Domestic Spaces, Aesthetic Traces -- Cubes, Cubes, and More Cubes -- Painting by Letters.
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| Abstract
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Defying Gravity is a major reassessment of the work of Jean Paulhan within the context of his own times, as well as in the light of contemporary debates in literary theory. Best known for his long-serving editorship of the influential Parisian literary review, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paulhan is now widely acknowledged as one of the most central yet least understood figures of twentieth-century French intellectual and literary history. Syrotinski's study admirably performs the dual purpose of introducing a genuinely innovative and distinctive writer to a general anglophone readership, while engaging critically with his texts and their reception.
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Paulhan, Jean,1884-1968-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism-- History-- 20th century.
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France, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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| LC Classification
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PN94.S97 1998
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