The Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie Vol. 1: Dreams of Knowledge

by Malcolm Bowie

Overview

This book explains the relationship between imagination and intellectual inquiry. It is written in the form of articles intended for academic readers. The book focuses on main subjects: proust, modern French poetry, and psychoanalysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367601850
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Series:	Legenda Main
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface Gillian Beer xi

A Biography of Malcolm Bowie Michael Sheringham xiii

Editor's Introduction xvii

Note on Texts and Translations xxii

Prelude

1 Remembering the Future 3

Part I Proust

2 Proust and Psychoanalysis 21

3 Plutarch to Proust: Exemplary Lives 32

4 Proust and the Art of Brevity 46

5 Proust and Italian Painting 58

6 Reading Proust Between the Lines 81

Part II Modern French Poetry

7 The Question of Un Coup de dés 93

8 Genius at Nightfall: Mallarmé's 'Quand l'ombre menaça de la fatale loi…' 101

9 Towards a Poetics of Mallarmé's Late Prose 114

10 Sea and Structure in fin-de-siècle France: Mallarmé and Debussy 125

11 Mallarmé: Serenity and Violence 135

12 Mallarmé's Last Things 145

13 Paul Valéry: Dream and the Unconscious 157

14 Paul Eluard 172

Part III Psychoanalysis

15 Lacan and Mallarmé: Theory as Word-Play 191

16 Memory and Desire in Freud's Civilization and its Discontents 202

17 Psychoanalysis and Arc: The Winnicott Legacy 214

18 Freud and the Art of Biography 227

19 Introduction to Sigmund Freud, An Outline of Psychoanalysis 240

Consolidated Index 251