The Artificial and the Natural

The Artificial and the Natural
Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2007
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0262026201

These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.

Stranded

Stranded
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Jacques' waking reveries and daydreams are balanced by a succession of dreams and nightmares that explore the seemingly irrational, often grotesque, world of unconscious desire, producing a series of images that challenges anything to be found in the fantasies of 'Against Nature', or the Satanic obsessions of 'La-Bas'."

The Romantic Agony

The Romantic Agony
Author: Mario Praz
Publisher: [London] : Collins
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1956
Genre: Devil in literature
ISBN:

Mario Paz has, in the Romantic Agony, acutely analyzed the effect of the traditions of Byron and De Sade upon poets and painters from 1800 to 1900. It is the analysis of a mood in literature. The mood may ve been transient, but it was widespread, and it was expressed in dreams of "luxurious cruelties," "fatal women," corpse-passions, and the sinful agonies of delight. Professo Praz has described the whole Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility.

En Route

En Route
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1897
Genre: Catholic converts
ISBN:

Twice Upon a Time

Twice Upon a Time
Author: Elizabeth Wanning Harries
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2003-09-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780691115672

Harries introduces the stories written by 17th century French women, or conteuses, female storytellers. Their stories omitted from the traditional, largely male-authored, fairy tale "canon."

The Vatard Sisters

The Vatard Sisters
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: French literature
ISBN: 9781907650536

"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and caf (c)-concerts...and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy...a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work..." ]Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future