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title	:	Romantic Irony in French Literature From Diderot to Beckett
author	:	Bishop, Lloyd.
publisher	:	Vanderbilt University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	082651233X
print isbn13	:	9780826512338
ebook isbn13	:	9780585034065
language	:	English
subject	French literature--19th century--History and criticism, French literature--History and criticism, Irony in literature, Romanticism--France.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	PQ287.B58 1989eb
ddc	:	840.9/18
subject	:	French literature--19th century--History and criticism, French literature--History and criticism, Irony in literature, Romanticism--France.

Romantic Irony in French Literature From Diderot to Beckett Lloyd Bishop VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS Nashville, Tenessee 1989 Acknowledgments I gratefully acknowledge the helpful suggestions and the encouragement of several colleagues, especially Professor Philip Mellen of Virginia Tech, Professor Robert T. Denomm of the University of Virginia, and Professor L. Ross Chambers of the University of Michigan. Special thanks are owed to Angie Harvey for her expert typing of the manuscript. In another form, parts of this book have appeared in earlier studies. I wish to thank the copyright holders for permission to reprint passages from "Michaux's Clown," 1962 by The French Review, 36 (1962), 153157; "Romantic Irony in Musset's Namouna," 1979 by Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 7 (1979), 8191; "Romantic Irony in Le Rouge et le Noir: Julien as Lover and Thinker," in In Search of Style: Essays in French Literary Stylistics, The University Press of Virginia, 1982, pp. 4663; The Romantic Hero and His Heirs in French Literature (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1984), pp. 122137; ''Musset's Poetic World: A Trembling Universe in Perpetual Motion," in The Poetry of Alfred de Musset (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1987), pp. 6579; all rights reserved. Copyright 1989 by Lloyd Bishop Published in 1989 by the Vanderbilt University Press Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bishop, Lloyd, 1933 Romantic irony in French literature from Diderot to Beckett/ Lloyd Bishop p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-8265-1233-X: 1. French literature19th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. French literatureHistory and criticism. 3. Irony in literature. 4. RomanticismFrance. I. Title. PQ287.B58 1989 89-35563 840.9'18-dc20 CIP

This book is dedicated to the memory of Jeffrey Carre, one of my very best teachers, and Ken Stites, one of my very best friends.

Contents Preface ix 1 What Is Romantic Irony? 1 2 Eternal Mobility: Diderot's Jacques le fataliste 20 3 Self-Reflexive Irony in Musset's Namouna 41 4 Pathedy: The Hero as Fool in Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir 64 5 The Earnest but Skeptical Questor: Gautier's Albertus and Mademoiselle de Maupin 83 6 The Coexistence of Contraries: Baudelaire's La Fanfarlo and LesFleurs du mal 96 7 Ambivalent and Uncertain Irony in Flaubert's Madame Bovary 114 8 The Multiple Ironies of Black Humor: Michaux's Plume, "Clown" 130 9 Intellectual Gamesmanship: Queneau's Le Chiendent 154 10 The Fullness of Chaos: Beckett's Trilogy 185 Appendix: Romantic Irony and the Novel: Friedrich von Schlegel and Mikhail Bakhtin 205

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