Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature

1. Introduction: Influence: Form, Subjects, Time
Daniel Brewer

2. Voltaire, Dante and the Dynamics of Influence
Russell Goulbourne

3. Post-Revolutionary Uses of Pascal
Philip Knee

4. The Survival of Sade in French Literature of the 1950s
Perrine Coudurier

5. Jules Laforgue, Hartmann and Schopenhauer: From Influence to Rewriting
Madeleine Guy

6. Text, Image and Music: Paul Valéry’s Melodrama Sémiramis and the Influence of the Ballets Russes
Natasha Grigorian

7. Influence as Appropriation of the Creative Gesture: Henri Matisse’s Poèmes de Charles d’Orléans
Kathryn Brown

8. Samuel Beckett’s Funerary Sculpture
Claire Lozier

9. ‘Périmer d’avance’: Blanchot, Derrida and Influence
John McKeane

10. Figuring Influence: Some Influential Metaphors in Derrida, Valéry and Freud
Paul Earlie

11. Roland Barthes’s Ghosts: Photobiographical Influence and Legacies
Fabien Arribert-Narce

12. ‘Le Cycle de Nestor’: Patrick Pécherot’s Rewriting of Léo Malet
Angela Kimyongür

13. Jacques Roubaud’s Rejection of Japoniste Influence: Tokyo infra-ordinaire
Lucy O’Meara

14. Ghosts of Influence? Spectrality in the Novels of Marie Darrieussecq
Carine Fréville

15. ‘Now I See Me, Now You Don’t’: Working with/against Paternal Influence in Marie Nimier’s Photo-Photo
Ana Medeiros

Avainsanat: History, History of France, Literature, general, European Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory