Remembering Paris in Text and Film: Echoes of Baudelaire in Text and on Screen

by Alistair Rolls (Editor), Marguerite Johnson (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789384185
Publisher:	Intellect, Limited
Publication date:	12/14/2021
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Alistair Rolls is associate professor of French studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.


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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction: Remembering in Paris and Paris as Remembering 1

1 Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen: Re-presenting Paris Alistair Rolls 21

2 Baudelaire and the Classical Tradition: Virgil, Ovid and Sappho in Paris Marguerite Johnson 39

3 Sappho in the Salons Marguerite Johnson 59

4 Memory, Modernity and the City in Agnès Varda's Paris Films Felicity Chaplin 77

5 Looking (Back) at the Moon in Parisian Cinema Alistair Rolls 92

6 Breathless in Paris Christopher Falzon 108

7 As Sedate as Swans: The Parisian Side of Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée Alistair Rolls 127

8 'La forme d'une ville/Change plus vite, hélas! […]': Translation and the Changing Modes of Urban Cognition Clive Scott 150

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 165

10 Forms of Remembrance in the Sculpted Verse of Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas and Some of their Male Contemporaries Daniel A. Finch-Race Valentina Gosetti 187

Contributors 211

Index 215