Modern French Criticism: From Proust and Valéry to Structuralism

This collection explores and reviews the work of the major French critics of the twentieth century [NB: as of 1972], an area of intellectual endeavor surprisingly neglected in English-speaking countries. Each chapter examines an important critic's work or a coherent body of criticism, and each is supplemented by an annotated bibliography of works by and about its subject.Included are essays on:Maurice Blanchot (de Man)Jean-Paul Sartre (Jameson)The Geneva School (Miller)Structuralism (Said)Roland Barthes (Velan)Albert Thibaudet (Wellek)Georges Bataille (Beaujour)Gaston Bachelard (Champigny)Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Oxenhandler)Jean Paulhan (Eustis)Breton & the surrealists (Brown)