Aeneas Takes the Metro: The Presence of Virgil in Twentieth-century French LiteratureThis study traces Virgil's journey through twentieth-century France by examining his profile in the works of Gide, Aragon, Valery, Pagnol, Klossowski, Butor, Simon and Pinget, and by looking at how their Virgilian appropriations complement and modify current readings of the "Aeneid" and other works. His presence in these works provides insights not only into modern French culture but into the Virgilian oeuvre itself. This process of mutual illumination is highlighted in Cox's argument by theories of intertextuality and dialogism. Although Virgil's presence in French literature is characterized by its focus on exile and uncertainty, Cox's study reaffirms the multivalency of this great European poet and his continuing relevance at the turn of the millennium. |
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... journey . The discussion between Augustus and Virgil represents the only substantial human contact in the book . Broch is compassionate in his portrayal of the emperor , creating a figure who is humanly flawed and humanly trapped ...
... journey . The discussion between Augustus and Virgil represents the only substantial human contact in the book . Broch is compassionate in his portrayal of the emperor , creating a figure who is humanly flawed and humanly trapped ...
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... journey has always functioned as a metaphor for a journey of self - discovery , a voyage into the subconscious . Butor's La Modification is the story of Léon Delmont , a middle - aged businessman who undergoes a descente aux enfers ...
... journey has always functioned as a metaphor for a journey of self - discovery , a voyage into the subconscious . Butor's La Modification is the story of Léon Delmont , a middle - aged businessman who undergoes a descente aux enfers ...
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... journey towards the light of a Paradise regained . A parallel to this journey is the attempt of language to reach its own telos in the unfractured , universal , pre - Babel language . Klossowski has demonstrated how , on this journey ...
... journey towards the light of a Paradise regained . A parallel to this journey is the attempt of language to reach its own telos in the unfractured , universal , pre - Babel language . Klossowski has demonstrated how , on this journey ...
Contents
Intertextual Virgil | 16 |
French Virgilian Criticism and the Importance of Broch | 29 |
Songs of War | 57 |
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