Remembering Paris in Text and Film
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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.
Alistair Rolls is associate professor of French studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research focuses on twentieth-century literature, especially Paris, and the intertextual presence of Charles Baudelaire. He is the coeditor of Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator, also published by Intellect. Marguerite Johnson is professor of classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her areas of expertise include classical reception and the influence of Sappho in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris.
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
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
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