In this title, the author argues that in the pages of Symbolist journals the modern reader can unearth an "other" 19th century, revealed as a creative realm in which writers allow themselves more artistic freedom than in their more formal, literary creations. In the journal they tested experimental theories, composed offbeat poetic texts and offered their opinions on a vast array of cultural phenomena. The aim of the book is to show that the Symbolist journals bear witness to a more personal, erratic, and innovative face of an aesthetic movement and a historical moment that have in many ways become cliched. The author also suggests that the development of interdisciplinarity in the Symbolist journals represents an influential aesthetic notion that went on to play a crucial role in 20th-century artistic expression, discernible in the schools of Modernism and Surrealism.

Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence (European Cultural Transition, 13)

Literature & Fiction

Genova, Pamela Antonia

History & Criticism

Ashgate Pub Ltd

Le mythe a toujours tenu une place privilégiée dans l’œuvre d’André Gide. En dépit de sa formation protestante, ou peut-être justement à cause d’elle, Gide revient constamment aux figures héroïques e l’Antiquité pout animer ses préoccupations esthétiques et morales. A travers l’étude de quatre textes indicatifs du corpus mythologique de l’auteur―Le Traité du Narcisse, Le Prométhée mal enchaine, Œdipe et Thésée―ce livre examine la façon dont le discours gidien, encadre par un référent ancien, arrive à s’affirmer et à se définir dans toute sa modernité. La question est de savoir comment Gide reformule, transforme, et métamorphose la matière mythique pour en tirer un nouveau sens, pour y ajouter sa propre voix. Pour répondre à cette question, Genova élabore la notion de “mythotextualité,” un principe théorique qui comprend deux éléments principaux: La mythologie et l’intertextualité. La mythotextualité est un domaine d’activité textuelle à travers lequel l’écrivain entreprend une réécriture créatrice et ludique des récits mythologiques. Genova démontre que Gide utilise des figures intertextuelles telles que le déplacement, l’enchâssement, la notion du double et la mise en abyme, et aussi qu’il développe dans chacun de ces quatre textes un discours personnel ou il traite d’un problème intime qu’il a essayé de résoudre toute sa vie. Les récits mythologiques de Gide se nourrissent d’une contradiction fondamentale, un va-et-vient entre une sensualité dévorante et une moralité tyrannique, entre la jouissance et l’ascétisme, enfin entre le paganisme et le christianisme. Cela constitue la “problématique gidienne.” A travers une manipulation progressivement plus développée des procédés textuels modernistes, Gide perfectionne sone discours conflit secret de plus en plus de liberté.
In the work of the French writer André Gide, ancient Greek mythology plays an extraordinarily decisive role. In spite of his Protestant formation, or perhaps precisely because of it, Gide returned often to the heroic figures of antiquity to animate his aesthetic and moral ideas. Through the study of four important texts constructed around mythological figures – Le Traité du Narcisse, Le Prométhée mal enchaîné, Œdipe and Thésée – Pamela Genova explores the ways in which the Gidean discourse, framed within an ancient referent, succeeded at affirming itself and defining itself in all its original modernity. This study poses the question of how Gide reformulated, transformed, and metamorphosized mythic material to draw out new meaning and to add to his own voice. To examine and appreciate Gide’s mythic work, Genova elaborates the notion of “mythotextuality,” and intertextuality. Mythotextuality is a realm of textual activity in which the writer constructs a personalized rewriting of ancient mythic narratives. Genova demonstrates how Gide used myth to explore a private dilemma that he struggled to resolve throughout his life. Through a progressively more developed manipulation of modern textual processes, Gide perfected his mythotextual discourse while he allowed his inner conflict more and more freedom. Written in French, this study is recommended for students and scholars of French and comparative literature.

Andre Gide dans le labrynthe de la mythotextualite (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 8) (French Edition)

Purdue University Press

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Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence (European Cultural Transition, 13)

Andre Gide dans le labrynthe de la mythotextualite (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 8) (French Edition)