Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce the following new publication(s)
in Comparative Studies:
Heroism and Passion in Literature:
Studies in Honour of Moya Longstaffe.
Edited by Graham Gargett.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. XII, 282 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 77)
ISBN: 90-420-1692-2 € 64,-
This volume, prompted by the publication in 1999 of Moya Longstaffe’s
remarkable study, Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French
Literature: Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel, further investigates and analyses
the multiple appearances of Passion and Heroism in literature. It pursues
the exploration of these themes in a variety of cultures (English, French,
German, Spanish), genres, and critical approaches. In addition, the
chronological span represented is extremely wide. Contributions range from
La Fontaine, Molière and Voltaire to Rimbaud and Camus; from Baudelaire to
Beckett; from Wagner to Goytisolo. This very diversity gives necessary
context, providing scope for reflection and analysis. Although passion
seems timeless, can heroism have any real meaning – apart from an individual
and existential one – in our postmodern age? Has a notion at the centre of
European culture for so many centuries really disappeared from our
intellectual and cultural universe? This volume will be of interest to all
students of literature, whatever their critical or linguistic allegiance,
since it focuses on the varying manifestations of two vital ingredients of
all societies and cultures.
Graham Gargett is Professor of French Culture and Ideas at the University of
Ulster. Before working in Northern Ireland, he studied at the Universities
of Reading and East Anglia and taught English in France for several years.
His publications include Voltaire and Protestantism (Oxford, 1980), a
revised version of his doctoral thesis; Jacob Vernet, Geneva and the
‘Philosophes’ (Oxford, 1994); and a monograph on the abbé Trublet published
in the Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. He also co-edited,
with Geraldine Sheridan, Ireland and the French Enlightenment, 1700-1800
(Basingstoke, 1999). He is currently President of the Eighteenth-Century
Ireland Society.
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