Leo Spitzer by David Bellos
The undisputed master of stylistic criticism, Leo Spitzer combined phenomenal learning in historical and comparative linguistics with brilliant and original critical insight. He was born in Vienna in 1887. He studied Romance Philology at the Universities of Vienna and Paris and then taught at Vienna, Bonn, Marburg and Cologne. After escaping from Germany in 1933, he taught briefly at Istanbul and then at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He died in 1960. He was the author of over 800 books, articles, reviews and notes on the language and literatures of France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Germany, England and America from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. This translation brings together for the first time in any language all of Spitzer's work on the literature of seventeenth-century France, including 'Racine's classical piano' (1928) and 'Saint-Simon's portrait of Louis XIV' (1928). Each of the essays demonstrates in practical rather than theoretical terms the essential unity of literary and linguistic study. David Bellos's introduction sets Spitzer's method of textual and stylistic interpretation in its historical context and sketches out the career of this supremely knowledgeable reader for whom knowledge was less important than understanding.-
Sartre: Literature and Theory
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Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 17601820
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Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France
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System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida
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The Death of Stephane Mallarme
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Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France
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Tradition and Desire
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Flaubert and the Gift of Speech
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Politeness and its Discontents
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French Renaissance Tragedy
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Pascal and the Arts of the Mind
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Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose
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Genealogies of the Text
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Proust, the Body and Literary Form
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Reading the French Enlightenment
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Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
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Politics and Narratives of Birth
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Reading Paul Valery
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Pictorialist Poetics
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Poetry and Fable
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Sartre and 'Les Temps Modernes'
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The Knowledge of Ignorance
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Irony and Ideology in Rabelais
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Flaubert's Characters
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Baudelaire and Intertextuality
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Corneille, Classicism and the Ruses of Symmetry
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Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing
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The Limits of Narrative
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Mallarme, Manet and Redon
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Baudelaire in 1859
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Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis
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Claude Simon
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History and Ideology in Proust
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The Object of Art
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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau
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The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance
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Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel
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Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715
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Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry
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Where Flaubert Lies
Bellos, David: - David Bellos is the director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, where he is also a professor of French and comparative literature. He has won many awards for his translations of Georges Perec, Ismail Kadare, and others, including the Man Booker International Translator's Award. He also received the Prix Goncourt for George Perec: A Life in Words. He is the author of the book Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521289719 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521289718 |
| Title | Leo Spitzer |
| Author | David Bellos |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In French |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2009-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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