BOOKS - The Romantic Prison
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The Romantic Prison
Author: Victor H. Brombert
Year: 2015
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.8 MB
Language: English
Year: 2015
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.8 MB
Language: English
Prison haunts our civilization writes Victor Brombert Object of fear it is also a subject of poetic reverie Focusing on French literature of the Romantic era the author probes the manifold significance of imprisonment as symbol and metaphor of the human condition His thematic exploration draws on a constellation of writers ranging from the Platonic and Christian traditions to the Existentialist generation Professor Brombert points out that nineteenth and twentieth century literature endowed the prison image with unusual prestige and he examines the historical and social reasons After considering the influence of Pascal and of the myth of the Bastille he closely analyzes the work of Borel Stendhal Victor Hugo Nerval Baudelaire Huysmans and Sartre with excursions into texts by Byron Dostoevsky Kafka Solzhenitsyn Sade and others His approach reflects a concern with the interaction of literature historiography and popular myth This imaginative treatment deepens our understanding of Romanticism and its favored themes It offers fresh thoughts as well about modern man s dialectical tensions between oppression and inner freedom fate and revolt and the awareness of the finite and the longing for infinity A wide ranging conclusion speculates about the future of the prison theme in a world that has been threatened by extermination camps Originally published in 1978 The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print on demand technology to again make available previously out of print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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