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Title: Baudelaire, Emerson, and the French-American Connection

Baudelaire, Emerson, and the French-American Connection

Contrary Affinities

by Dudley M. Marchi (Author)
©2011 Monographs 134 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Volume 195

Summary

This book enhances our understanding of France and the United States by focusing on their intercultural relations. Baudelaire and Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is pervasive in French-American relations. A historical perspective to contemporary issues regarding the French-American connection helps us to come to terms with some of the pressing problems currently facing France and the United States and to view some key literary texts in a new light.

Details

Pages
134
Year
2011
ISBN (PDF)
9781453907931
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433114427
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0793-1
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (February)
Keywords
History France-U.S. Intercultural Relations Literaure
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. XVIII, 134 pp.

Biographical notes

Dudley M. Marchi (Author)

Dudley M. Marchi received his PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University. He has been a faculty member of North Carolina State University since 1989 and is currently Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Associate Department Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. His research focuses on European and American literature in historical and cultural contexts. He has published articles and book reviews on such authors as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Charles Baudelaire and Michel de Montaigne and a book, Montaigne among the Moderns: Receptions of the Essais. His teaching focuses on masterpieces of Western literature, French literature, history and culture and second-language acquisition.

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