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Diplomacy and the Modern Novel : France, Britain, and the Mission of Literature /
"Between 1900 and 1960, many writers in France and Britain either had parallel careers in diplomatic corps or frequented diplomatic circles: Paul Claudel, Albert Cohen, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, John le Carre, Andre Malraux, Nancy Mitford, Marcel Proust, and others. What attracts writers...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Mission of Literature: Modern Novels and Diplomacy
- Diplomacy Old and New
- Representation
- "J'observe!": The Example of Norpois
- Time and Speed
- Channel Crossings: Organization of Essays
- PART ONE: Diplomatic Experience
- 1 Making a Song and Dance of It: Staging Diplomacy in William Gerhardi's Early Novels
- Commedia delle Arte Diplomatiche
- Diplomatic Spectatorship: "Styles de la Valise," "Paysages de la Valise"
- Diplomatic Discord at the Concert of Nations
- Epilogue
- 2 The League of Nations As Seen by Albert Cohen: A User's Guide to Social Magic
- Civil Servants, Dilettantes, and Baboons
- A Frozen Language of Stereotypes
- The Valiants: Breathing New Life into the Language of Diplomacy
- 3 Modern Negotiations: Harold Nicolson's and Peacemaking 1919 and Public Faces
- Peacemaking 1919
- Public Faces
- The League of Nations
- PART TWO: Novels and Diplomacy
- 4 "Diplomatic Dispatch Style": Towards a New Aesthetic of the Novel
- 5 Conrad's Politics of Idealism: Diplomacy without Diplomats
- Revolutionary Etymologies
- Fictions of Diplomacy
- Fiction as Diplomacy
- 6 Andre Gide and the Art of Evasion
- A Literary Ambassador
- The Inconsequence of Lafcadio
- Coda
- PART THREE: Documents
- 7 Proust's Epistolary Diplomacy: Antoine Bibesco, Rene Peter, and "Salaïsme"
- Diplomatic Manoeuvres
- Disguise, Collaboration, and the Interchange of Places
- Falsified Documents, Discrepant Genres
- 8 The Art of Conversation: Nancy Mitford, France, and Cultural Diplomacy
- Precedents
- The Fourth Republic
- Diplomacy à la française
- Leisurely Hours of Talk
- PART FOUR: Foreign Affairs
- 9 Action, Diplomacy, Art: Andre Malraux and Graham Greene
- Andre Malraux: The Anti-Diplomatic Diplomat
- Graham Greene: Honorary Consul, Honorary Quixote
- 10 Mythography and Diplomacy in Works by Ian Fleming and John le Carre
- Licence to Thrill
- Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming, RNVR
- James Bond, Public Servant
- Le Carre's Way: George Smiley as Anti-Bond
- 11 Lawrence Durrell: Diplomacy as Farce
- Diplomatic Humours
- Inadvertency
- Sauve Qui Peut!
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index