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This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process? and answers it by way of a critical study of Stendhal's writing. Ann Jefferson argues that a recognition of the role of reading in representation is particularly crucial to an understanding of Stendhal's realism, and her account includes substantial discussions of De l'Amour, Le Rouge et le Noir, the Vie de Henry Brulard and La Chartreuse de Parme. Her study also draws a number of illuminating parallels between Stendhal and aspects of modern critical theory, and uses them in order to reveal the high degree of sophistication and self-consciousness in Stendhal's writing, qualities which are attributed here to the intensity of his preoccupation with his readers. By focusing on the issue of reading in Stendhal this book not only proposes a reassessment of Stendhal's own work, but also opens up lines of enquiry on the critical problem that is realism.

Stendhal --- 840 "18" STENDHAL --- Realism in literature --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--STENDHAL --- -Criticism and interpretation --- 840 "18" STENDHAL Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--STENDHAL --- -Beyle, Henri --- Beyle, Marie-Henri --- M. B. A. A. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Stendhal, --- Brulard, Henry, --- Beyle, Henri, --- Stendalʹ, --- Beĭlʹ, Anri, --- Beĭlʹ, Mari-Anri, --- Beyle, Marie Henri, --- Bombet, L. A. C., --- Sŭtʻangdal, --- Ssu-tʻang-ta, --- Sutandāru, --- Beyle, Arrigo, --- Стендаль, --- סטנדאל --- סטנדל --- סטנדל, --- スタンダール, --- Stendalis, --- Beyle de Stendahl, Henri, --- Stendahl, Henri de, --- Stendahl, M. de, --- Beyle, Enrico, --- Bayle, Enrico Maria, --- Bombet, Louis-Alexandre-André-César, --- Stendals, --- Stantal, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Istāndāl, --- استاندال --- スタンダール --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Realism in literature.

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Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99) is regarded as one of the major French novelists of the twentieth century. Initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, she has come to be regarded as an important author in her own right with her own distinctive concerns. In this major 2000 study of Sarraute, the first in English since her death, Ann Jefferson offers a fresh perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre - her novels, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings - by focusing on the crucial issue of difference which emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Drawing on a variety of critical approaches, Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds including questions of gender and genre. She argues that difference is simultaneously asserted and denied in Sarraute's work, and that the notion of difference, so often celebrated by other writers and thinkers, is shown in Sarraute's work to the inseparable from ambiguity and anxiety.

Sarraute, Nathalie --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Sarrot, N. --- Sarrot, Natali --- Saroṭ, Naṭali --- Tcherniak, Nathalie --- Tcherniak Sarraute, Nathalie --- סארוט, נאטאלי --- סארוט, נטלי --- Sarraute, Nathalie - Criticism and interpretation.

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Fiction --- French literature --- anno 1900-1999

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This engaging book spans three centuries to provide the first full account of the long and diverse history of genius in France. Exploring a wide range of examples from literature, philosophy, and history, as well as medicine, psychology, and journalism, Ann Jefferson examines the ways in which the idea of genius has been ceaselessly reflected on and redefined through its uses in these different contexts. She traces its varying fortunes through the madness and imposture with which genius is often associated, and through the observations of those who determine its presence in others.Jefferson considers the modern beginnings of genius in eighteenth-century aesthetics and the works of philosophes such as Diderot. She then investigates the nineteenth-century notion of national and collective genius, the self-appointed role of Romantic poets as misunderstood geniuses, the recurrent obsession with failed genius in the realist novels of writers like Balzac and Zola, the contested category of female genius, and the medical literature that viewed genius as a form of pathology. She shows how twentieth-century views of genius narrowed through its association with IQ and child prodigies, and she discusses the different ways major theorists-including Sartre, Barthes, Derrida, and Kristeva-have repudiated and subsequently revived the concept.Rich in narrative detail, Genius in France brings a fresh approach to French intellectual and cultural history, and to the burgeoning field of genius studies.

Genius --- France. --- France --- Intellectual life.

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