The Power of Rethoric, the Rethoric of Power (Yale French Studies, no. 106)

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)