Defying Gravity(English, Paperback, Syrotinski Michael)

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Defying Gravity(English, Paperback, Syrotinski Michael) is written by Syrotinski Michael and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791436403 (ISBN 10) and 9780791436400 (ISBN 13).

A major reassessment of the work of Jean Paulhan within the context of his own times as well as in the light of contemporary debates in literary theory. Defying Gravity is a major reassessment of the work of Jean Paulhan within the context of his own times, as well as in the light of contemporary debates in literary theory. Best known for his long-serving editorship of the influential Parisian literary review, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paulhan is now widely acknowledged as one of the most central yet least understood figures of twentieth-century French intellectual and literary history. Syrotinski's study admirably performs the dual purpose of introducing a genuinely innovative and distinctive writer to a general anglophone readership, while engaging critically with his texts and their reception. Syrotinski's readings of Paulhan are both original and provocative, and firmly establish him as an unavoidable point of reference for twentieth-century French literary history and theory.