Yale French Studies, Number 106
"The Power of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Power: Jean Paulhan’s Fiction, Criticism and Editorial Activity"
By Michael Syrotinski
CONTENTS:
1. Jean Paulhan as Editor and Critic
Bernard Baillaud: Jean Paulhan’s Influences
Brigitte Ouvry-Vial: The Double Necessity of Criticism and Self-Effacement
Martyn Cornick: Jean Paulhan and the Nouvelle Revue Française
2. Rhetoric and What Really Happens
Michael Syrotinski: The Rhetoric of Illness in Jean Paulhan
Carol Murphy: Re-presenting the Real
Kevin Newmark: On Parole
3. Rhetoric and Politics
Anna-Louise Milne: The Power of Dissimulation
Laurent Jenny: Paulhan, Blanchot and Le 14 juillet
Richard Rand: Grave Site
4. The Power of Literature
Jean-Yves Pouilloux: Faultlines
Eric Trudel: “Those Who Have Fallen Silent”
Julien Dieudonné: The Power of Poetics, the Poetics of Power
5. Two texts by Jean Paulhan
“A Bee”
“Democracy Calls out to the First Comer” (translated by Jennifer Bajorek)