1st Edition
Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit Beyond the Prose Poem
By Valentina Gosetti
Copyright 2016
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit (1842) is a familiar title to music lovers, thanks to Ravel’s piano work of the same name, and to specialists of French literature, especially those interested in Baudelaire’s prose poetry. Yet until very recently the collection and its author have generally been viewed almost exclusively through the prism of their pioneering role in the development of the... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, 1. Louis Bertrand between Dijon and Paris, 2. Mysterious Geographies, 3. Gaspard de la Nuit: A Fantastic Text?, 4. Intertextuality and Cultural Exchange in Gaspard de la Nuit, 5. Gaspard de la Nuit and the Hermeneutics of Form, Conclusion, Appendix, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Valentina Gosetti holds the Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellowship at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford.
