Pierrots on the stage of desire : nineteenth-century French literary artists and the comic pantomime

Pierrots on the stage of desire : nineteenth-century French literary artists and the comic pantomime /

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:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]
Series:Princeton legacy library
Subjects:
1800-1899
Pantomime > France.
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Desire in literature.
Comedy.
comedy plays.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
HISTORY > General.
Comedy
Desire in literature
French literature
Pantomime
Psychoanalysis and literature
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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: Théophile Gautier
  • V. Pierrot narcissique: Théodore de Banville
  • VI. Pierrot emmerdant: Gustave Flaubert
  • VII. Pierrot glacé: Edmond de Goncourt
  • VIII. Pierrot oedipien: J.-M. Huysmans
  • IX. Pierrot pubère: Paul Verlaine
  • X. Pierrot Vanishes: Paul Margueritte and Stéphane Mallarmé
  • XI. Epilogue: Eclipse
  • Handlist of Pantomime Scenarios
  • Index.

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