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Hugh P . McGrath / Michael Comenetz
Valéry’s Graveyard
aléry’s Graveyard is in two parts . The
first part presents the French text of
Paul Valéry’s poem Le Cimetière marin (The
Graveyard by the Sea) and a facing English
translation, followed by a descriptive account
of the poem that sets out its main structural
and dynamic features and traces its narrative
. The second part consists of nine short
chapters on selected themes of the poem in
their relation to the poet’s thought, including
certain of his scientific concerns, and to
literature ancient and modern .
Le Cimetière marin is one of the most celebrated
works of poetry of the last hundred
years, widely recognized as distinguished for
beauty of form and wealth of meaning . On
the basis of the French text and a translation
that is at once accurate and poetical, this book
provides an introduction to the poem, and
thereby to the complex intellectual world of
Valéry . It exhibits the depth and breadth both
of the poem and of the poet’s thought .
A valuable resource for scholars, Valéry’s
Graveyard is accessible to all serious readers .
John McKeane / Hannes Opelz (eds)
Blanchot Romantique
A Collection of Essays
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011 . 329 pp .
Romanticism and after in France . Vol . 17
Edited by Patrick McGuinness
pb . ISBN 978-3-03911-973-8
CHF 73 .– / € D 50 .– / € A 51 .40 / € 46 .70 /
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T
he work of French writer and essayist
Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) is without
doubt among the most challenging the
twentieth century has to offer . Contemporary
debate in literature, philosophy, and politics
has yet to fully acknowledge its discreet
but enduring impact . Arising from a conference
that took place in Oxford in 2009, this
book sets itself a simple, if daunting, task:
Le Cimetière marin
Translated, Described, and Peopled
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
XIV, 200 pp ., num . ill .
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures . Vol . 186
General Editors: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell and Michael G . Paulson
hb . ISBN 978-1-4331-1334-5
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As it does not require a knowledge of French,
the book is suitable for study in any course
on modern literature .
hugh P. MCgRath (1914-1995) took degrees
in French language and literature at
the University of Liverpool and the Sorbonne,
and served in British Army counterintelligence
in the Second World War . From 1947
until near the end of his life he taught at St .
John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland . He
wrote on literary, philosophical, and educational
subjects, and was known for his public
readings of poetry in English and French .
MiChael CoMenetz studied mathematics,
physics, and literature at Johns Hopkins
University, and received a PhD in mathematics
from Brandeis University . Since 1975 he
has been at St . John’s College, where he has
taught literature in French and other languages,
and has held the National Endowment
for the Humanities chair . He has published
articles in mathematics and on literature,
and is the author of Calculus: The
Elements (2002) .
that of measuring the impact and responding
to the challenge of Blanchot’s work by addressing
its engagement with the Romantic
legacy, in particular (but not only) that of the
Jena Romantics . Drawing upon a wide range
of philosophers and poets associated directly
or indirectly with German Romanticism
(Kant, Fichte, Goethe, Jean Paul, Novalis, the
Schlegels, Hölderlin), the authors of this volume
explore how Blanchot’s fictional, critical,
and fragmentary texts rewrite and rethink
the Romantic demand in relation to
questions of criticism and reflexivity, irony
and subjectivity, narrative and genre, the
sublime and the neutre, the Work and the
fragment, quotation and translation . Reading
Blanchot with or against key twentiethcentury
thinkers (Benjamin, Foucault, de
Man), they also examine Romantic and post-
Romantic notions of history, imagination,
literary theory, melancholy, affect, love, revo-
lution, community, and other central themes
that Blanchot’s writings deploy across the
century from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jean-Luc
Nancy . This book contains contributions in
both English and French .
ContentS: Hannes Opelz/John McKeane:
Introduction: The Absolute, the Fragmentary
• Gisèle Berkman : ‘Une histoire dans le romantisme
?’ Maurice Blanchot et l’Athenæum
• Christophe Bident : Le Neutre est-il une notion
romantique ? • Yves Gilonne : L’Auto-réflexivité
du sublime • Michael Holland:
Blanchot and Jean Paul • Sergey Zenkin: Transformations
of Romantic Love • Jérémie
Majorel : Au moment voulu : de mélancolie
en mélancolie • Ian MacLachlan: Blanchot
and the Romantic Imagination • Jake Wadham:
Blanchot, Benjamin, and the Absence
of the Work • Hector Kollias: Unworking
Irony’s Work: Blanchot and de Man Reading
Schlegel • Leslie Hill: ‘A Fine Madness’: Translation,
Quotation, the Fragmentary • Maebh
Long: A Step Askew: Ironic Parabasis in Blanchot
• Martin Crowley: Even now, now, very
now • Ian James: The Narrow Margin • Parham
Shahrjerdi : Écrire la révolution .
John MCKeane is Laming Junior Fellow
of the Queen’s College, Oxford . His current
research looks at the work of Maurice Blanchot
as it opens towards the fragmentary and the
neutre .
hanneS oPelz studied in London, Paris,
Bologna, and Cambridge . His current research
concentrates on the work of Maurice Blanchot
and on what takes place between literature,
politics, philosophy, and experience .
Pierre-Alexis Mével /
Helen Tattam (eds/éds .)
Language and its Contexts
Transposition and Transformation
of Meaning?
Le Langage et ses contextes
Transposition et transformation
du sens ?
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2010 .
254 pp ., num . ill ., tables and graphs
Modern French Identities . Vol . 91
Edited by Peter Collier
I
pb . ISBN 978-3-0343-0128-2
CHF 57 .– / € D 39 .30 / € A 40 .40 / € 36 .70 /
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nspired by a postgraduate French studies
conference (University of Nottingham,
10 September 2008), this volume explores
linguistic form and content in rela-