1st Edition

Paul Valéry and the Voice of Desire

By Kirsteen Anderson Copyright 2001
234 Pages
by Routledge

The concept of voice was of central importance to Valery. It was representative of the most intimate aspects of the self, the means by which we achieve consciousness and affirm meaning - the knowledge of a lost unity and the desire to recapture it. Interweaving analysis of Valery's poetry and prose with wider critical concerns, Kirsteen Anderson shows that voice is central not only to the study of... Read more
Introduction 1 Voicing the Divide 2 Imagining Form 3 Integrating the Feminine 4 The Serpent Self, Conclusion, Bibliography.

Biography

Anderson, Kirsteen