A01=Meryl Tyers
advanced study of Nerval's works
Author_Meryl Tyers
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cazotte
Claude Pichois
Court De Gebelin
Cyrano De Bergerac
Daniel Sangsues
De La Croix
eccentricity in literature
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Female Initiation Ceremony
French literary criticism
jacques
Jacques Cazotte
Jean Richer
Le Diable
Le Diable Amoureux
Le Roi De
Les Faux
Les Faux Saulniers
Les Illumines
Les Nuits
Library Illuminated
literary reception history
narrative structure analysis
Nerval's Narrative
Nerval's Work
Nerval's Writing
Nervalian Text
Nerval’s Narrative
Nerval’s Work
Nerval’s Writing
nineteenth-century literature
poetic integration mechanisms
Restif De La Bretonne
Victor Brombert
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755153
- Weight: 226g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nerval's "Les Illumines" (1852) has often been seen as a problem text, and as a strange supplement to his masterpieces "Les Chimeres", "Les Filles du feu", and "Aurelia". In this first book-length study, in English or French, of "Les Illumines", Meryl Tyers argues that it is a complex work of art in its own right and that its originality has been obscured by the tangled publishing history of its individual narratives. Tyers re-examines that history and provides a complete documentary basis for critical discussion of the work. She also traces the critical response from the earliest reviews through to the scholarly editions and studies of the present day. Tyers's own critical reading pays particular attention to 'La Bibliotheque de mon oncle', Nerval's intriguing preface. By investigating in detail those fragmentary structures and varying themes that may at first make the unity of "Les Illumines" seem elusive, she is able to show that subtle integrative mechanisms are at work in a volume that deserves to be placed among the highest achievements of this incomparable poet.
