Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature

Fabien Arribert-Narce Thomas Baldwin Daniel Brewer Kathryn Brown Perrine Coudurier Paul Earlie James Fowler Carine Fréville Russell Goulbourne Natasha Grigorian Madeleine Guy Angela Kimyongür Philip Knee Claire Lozier John McKeane Ana de Medeiros

• Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Influence: Form, Subjects Time; Daniel Brewer 1. Voltaire, Dante and the Dynamics of Influence; Russell Goulbourne 2. Post-Revolutionary Uses of Pascal; Philip Knee 3. The Survival of Sade in French Literature of the 1950s; Pettine Coudurier 4. Jules Laforgue, Hartmann and Schopenhauer: From Influence to rewriting; Madeleine Guy 5. Text, Image and Music: Paul Valéry's Melodrama Sémiramis and the Influence of the Ballets Russes ; Natasha Grigorian 6. Influence as Appropriation of the Creative Gesture: Henri Matisse's Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans ; Kathryn Brown 7. Samuel Beckett's Funerary Sculpture; Claire Lozier 8. 'Périmer d'avance': Blanchot, Derrida and Influence; John McKeane 9. Figuring Influence: Some Influential Metaphors in Derrida, Valéry and Freud; Paul Earlie 10. Roland Barthes's Ghosts: Photobiographical Influence and Legacies; Fabien Arriberth-Narce 11. 'Le Cycle de Nestor': Patrick Pécherot's Rewriting ofLéo Malet; Angela Kimyongür 12. Jacques Roubaud's Rejection of Japoniste Influence: Tokyo infra-ordinaire ; Lucy O'Meara 13. Ghosts of Influence? Spectrality in the Novels of Marie Darrieussecq; Carine Fréville 14. 'Now I See Me, Now You Don't': Working with/against Paternal Influence in Marie Nimier's Photo-Photo ; Ana de Medeiros

'Questions of Influence is a major contribution to, and updating of, our understanding of the ways in which 'influence' works not only in literature but also in other art-forms, and in relationships between these. Exploring 'influence' in a newly sophisticated way, the book draws on a wide range of European writers, artists and thinkers, and showcases numerous talented critics working at the cutting edge of their fields. It will be indispensable both for those working on the individual figures who form the case studies of the book and for those who want to re-conceptualise the slippery concept of influence and the lateral, as well as direct, modes in which it operates. Each chapter is beautifully presented and lucidly argued, and the whole book demonstrates remarkable intellectual versatility and originality.' - Alison Finch, University of Cambridge, UK.