Time and Narrative in Stendhal (South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award Study) - Hardcover

Amoss, Benjamin McRae

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820314005 ISBN 13: 9780820314006

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1992

Synopsis

An examination of the role of time in various works by Stendhal, this book aims to demonstrate how the French writer's concern with temporality is reflected in his construction of narrative. Applying and expanding the theories proposed by Paul Ricoeur in "Temps et Recit", Amoss investigates Stendhal's use of narrative or quasi-narrative devices as a means of coming to terms with the perplexities of time and the human perception of it. Amoss focuses particularly on the ways in which Stendhal's shaping of narrative - both historical and fictional - mediates between cosmic time and individual lived time, or phemomenological time. His discussion moves from Stendhal's theoretical and polemical works, "Racine et Shakespeare" and "De l'Amour", to the travel and historical writing of "Promenades dans Rome", in which Stendhal relates the history of the city, exploring its identity in time. This, in turn, leads to an analysis of Stendhal's recounting of his own personal history and identity in Kthe "Journal" and the "Vie de Henry Brulard". Amoss finally looks at the novel "La Chartreuse de Parme" which seems to take up where "Henry Brulard" leaves off, with a young Frenchman's discovery of Italy during the Napoleonic campaigns.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820314005
• ISBN 13: 9780820314006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200