Pierrots on the Stage of Desire : Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime /

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This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Storey, Robert F., 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Pantomime.
French literature.
Desire in literature.
Comedy.
HISTORY > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
comedy plays.
Comedie.
Desir dans la litterature.
Psychanalyse et litterature.
Litterature française > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Pantomime > France.
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • I. Deburau
  • II. Paul Legrand, Champfleury, and Pantomime after Deburau
  • III. In Pursuit of Colombine: Charles Nodier and Charles Baudelaire
  • IV. Pierrot posthume: Theophile Gautier
  • V. Pierrot narcissique: Theodore de Banville
  • VI. Pierrot emmerdant: Gustave Flaubert
  • VII. Pierrot glace: Edmond de Goncourt
  • VIII. Pierrot oedipien: J.-M. Huysmans
  • IX. Pierrot pubere: Paul Verlaine
  • X. Pierrot Vanishes: Paul Margueritte and Stephane Mallarme
  • XI. Epilogue: Eclipse
  • Handlist of Pantomime Scenarios
  • Index.

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