André Gide and Curiosity

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著者：
Victoria Reid
This comprehensive exploration of curiosity in the fiction and life-writing of André Gide (1869–1951) 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 Gide’s 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. Gide’s creativity is nourished by his curiosity, as close readings of his work informed by Melanie Klein’s psychoanalytic writing on epistemophilia reveal. Curiosity is a rewarding, non-reductionist perspective from which the exceptional variety of Gide’s subject matter, style and genre can be more coherently understood. Research draws principally on the six Pléiade volumes of Gide’s œuvre, published 1996–2009.
Copyright Year:
2009
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Publisher ISBN:
978-90-420-2727-5
Publication date:
01 Jan 2009
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Publisher ISBN:
978-90-420-2726-8
Publication date:
01 Jan 2009
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Preliminary Material
页码： 1–7
Abbreviations
页码： 9–13
Introduction
页码： 15–78
Sexual Curiosity
页码： 79–142
Scientific Curiosity
页码： 143–201
Writerly Curiosity
页码： 203–246
Conclusion: The Kaleidoscope and the Library
页码： 247–276
Appendix
页码： 277–281
Bibliography
页码： 283–307
Index
页码： 309–316
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.
Abbreviations
Introduction: Curiosity and a Canary
Sexual Curiosity
Scientific Curiosity
Writerly Curiosity
Conclusion: The Kaleidoscope and the Library
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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出版社:
Brill
Language:
英语
Extent:
322 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789042027275

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