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Jean Paulhan
Probes the relationship between language, meaning, context, intention and action, and produces a treatise on the nature of the literary act, and a meditation on the responsibility or ethical imperative…
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Anna-Louise Milne
This book explores the space Jean Paulhan sought to carve out, between art for art’s sake and art for political ends, thereby establishing more clearly his place in the twentieth…
Clarisse Barthelemy-Arkwright
Poetry is everywhere in Jean Paulhan’s critical thought. We mean to show, by clarifying the relationships, which he maintained with the poets, and by commenting on key notions of his…
Camille Koskas
This book examines the role played by Jean Paulhan in the reconstitution of a literary community damaged by the dissensions inherited from the war, as well as his questioning of…
Michael Syrotinski
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.
In this new edition, John Flower provides a full contextualising introduction of Jean Paulhan’s Lettre aux directeurs de la Resistance. The volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of…
Voici donc le premier corpus complet, et qui couvre trente-cinq ans, des lettres de Paulhan a l'un de ses correspondants. Jean Paulhanle Patron? LeredoutableJean Paulhan…
Jean Paulhan,Richard Rand
Jean Paulhan had supervised the literary arm of the French Resistance during the war and helped to found the National Committee of Writers, saw the dangers of its blacklist from…
Presents the development of the author’s thinking on his most studied subject: how language works, or, to echo Blanchot again, how literature is possible. This title emphasizes the act of…
La correspondance qu'echangerent Jean Paulhan et Paul Claudel commence significativement a la mort de Jacques Riviere en 1925, au moment ou Jean Paulhan succede a ce dernier a la direction…
Jean Paulhan as Editor and Critic
Bernard Baillaud Jean Paulhan’s Influences
Brigitte Ouvry-Vial The Double Necessity of Criticism and Self-Effacement
Martyn Cornick Jean Paulhan and the Nouvelle Revue Francaise
Rhetoric…
Pauline Reage
Before Fifty Shades of Grey there was Story of O, the notorious novel of dark obsession that introduced the world to erotic fiction. How far will a woman go to…
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