An investigation of Paris as an urban space and a poetic site of remembrance.
Experiencing urban space conjures visions of the past alongside contemplation of the present. This edited volume investigates this feeling of seeing double by investigating Paris—a city that has come to embody the tension of this sensation—through a dual lens of nostalgia and modernity.
Contributors survey Paris in film, poetry, and prose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, presenting the city as both a concrete reality and as a collection of the myths associated with it. Interdisciplinary and deeply researched, the essays distill complex concepts of the urban, the textual, and the modern for a wide readership.
Edited by:
Alistair Rolls,
Marguerite Johnson
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9781789387605
ISBN 10: 1789387604
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 11 August 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Introduction: Remembering in Paris and Paris as Remembering 1. Charles Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen: Re-presenting Paris – Alistair Rolls 2. Baudelaire and the Classical Tradition: Virgil, Ovid and Sappho in Paris – Marguerite Johnson 3. Sappho in the Salons – Marguerite Johnson 4. Memory, Modernity and the City in Agnès Varda’s Paris Films – Felicity Chaplin 5. Looking (Back) at the Moon in Parisian Cinema – Alistair Rolls 6. Breathless in Paris – Christopher Falzon 7. As Sedate as Swans: The Parisian Side of Jean-Paul Sartre’s La Nausée – Alistair Rolls 8. ‘La forme d’une ville/Change plus vite, hélas! […]’: Translation and the Changing Modes of Urban Cognition – Clive Scott 9. Paris, Capital of the Australian Poetic Avant-Garde: Christopher Brennan’s ‘Musicopoematographoscope’, John Tranter’s ‘Desmond’s Coupé’ and Chris Edwards’ ‘A Fluke’ and After Naptime – David Musgrave 10. Forms of Remembrance in the Sculpted Verse of Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas and Some of their Male Contemporaries – Daniel A. Finch-Race and Valentina Gosetti Contributors Index
Alistair Rolls is associate professor of French studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research is in the fields of twentieth-century French and English literature, with an especial focus on crime fiction. Marguerite Johnson is professor of classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her areas of expertise include classical reception, including the influence of Sappho in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris.
