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1 online resource (225 pages) : color illustrations |
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Machine derived contents note: AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPART I: FAUSTROLL'S LIBRARYThe Pictures?Une affiche de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril?Une de Bonnard, La Revue Blanche?Un portrait du sieur Faustroll, par Aubrey Beardsley?Une vieille image, Saint Cado The Books?Baudelaire, un tome d'Edgar Poe, traduction?Bergerac, Oeuvres, tome II?L'Evangile de Saint Luc, en grec?Bloy, Le De;sespe;re;?Bloy, Le Mendiant ingrat?Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?Darien, Biribi?Darien, Le Voleur?Desbordes-Valmore, Le Serment des petits hommes?Elskamp, Salutations, dont d'ange;liques?Elskamp, Enluminures?Un volume de;pareille; du The;t́re de Florian?Un volume de;pareille; des Mille et Une Nuits, traduction Galland?Grabbe, Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung?Kahn, Le Livre d'images?Kahn, Le Conte de L'Or et du Silence?Lautre;amont, Les Chants de Maldoror?Maeterlinck, Pelle;as et Me;lisande?Maeterlinck, Aglavaine et Se;lysette?Mallarme;, Divagations?Mallarme;, Vers et prose?Mends̈, Gog? L'Odysse;e, e;dition Teubner?Pe;ladan, Babylone?Rabelais?Jean de Chilra, La Princesse des te;nb̈res?Jean de Chilra, L'Heure sexuelle?Henri de Re;gnier, La Canne de jaspe?Rimbaud, Les Illuminations?Schwob, La Croisade des enfants? Ubu Roi?Verlaine, Sagesse?Verhaeren, Les Campagnes hallucine;es?Verne, Le Voyage au Centre de la Terre ObservationsPART II: RECURRING THEMESFaith and Esoterica: Symbolist Thought?Esoteric Themes and Treatments?The Gospel according to Mends̈?Esoteric Tolerances?Pe;ladan?Magi?Faith without Esotericism?Bloy: Faith without Esotericism?Bloy: Faith and Constraint?Jarry: Hermeticism and FaithHeroes: The Symbolist U;bermensch?The Avoidance of Heroes?The Decline of the Decadent?The Rise of the Aggressive Individualist?The Symbolist HeroConclusionBibliographyIndex |
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The Pataphysician?s Library is a study of aspects of 1890s French literature, with specific reference to the traditions of Symbolism and Decadence. Its main focus is Alfred Jarry, who has proved, perhaps surprisingly, to be one of the more durable fin-de-siècle authors. The originality of this study lies in its use of the enigmatic list of books termed the livres pairs, which appears in Jarry?s 1898 novel Gestes et Opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien, his best-known prose work. The greatest interest of the livres pairs lies in a group of works by Jarry?s friends and contemporaries, |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-221) and index |
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Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907. Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien
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Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907. fast (OCoLC)fst00047378 |
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Jarry, Alfred (1873-1907). Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll. ram |
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Jarry, Alfred, (1873-1907) -- Livres et lecture. ram |
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Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien (Jarry, Alfred) fast (OCoLC)fst01367669 |
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French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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DRAMA -- Continental European.
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French literature.
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Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien (Jarry)
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Pataphysique (mouvement littéraire)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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9781846313721 |
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1846313724 |
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9781781388013 |
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1781388016 |
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