Anne Jamison
University of Utah, English, Faculty Member
Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. 52, No. 2, doi: 10.1093/fmls/ Despite profound differences, George Sand and Gustave Flaubert sustained a long and intimate correspondence that ended only with Sand's death. The two did not... more
Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. 52, No. 2, doi: 10.1093/fmls/
Despite profound differences, George Sand and Gustave Flaubert sustained a long and intimate correspondence that ended only with Sand's death. The two did not collaborate on any work outside the correspondence; like the friendship itself, the letters are in service of no goal outside themselves. It is as a years-long negotiation on the subject of writing – and how to live with it – that the Flaubert– Sand correspondence can best be understood as collaboration: a chronicle of the push and pull between different kinds of writerly minds and, as Sand would insist, 'hearts'. A sustained, mutual effort on the part of the correspondents develops a shared epistolary rhetoric that allows the friendship to proceed as egalitarian and affectionate across aesthetic, political and – perhaps most complexly and transfor-matively – gender divides. The result is an extremely compelling hybrid text such as neither writer could have imagined or written without the other.
Despite profound differences, George Sand and Gustave Flaubert sustained a long and intimate correspondence that ended only with Sand's death. The two did not collaborate on any work outside the correspondence; like the friendship itself, the letters are in service of no goal outside themselves. It is as a years-long negotiation on the subject of writing – and how to live with it – that the Flaubert– Sand correspondence can best be understood as collaboration: a chronicle of the push and pull between different kinds of writerly minds and, as Sand would insist, 'hearts'. A sustained, mutual effort on the part of the correspondents develops a shared epistolary rhetoric that allows the friendship to proceed as egalitarian and affectionate across aesthetic, political and – perhaps most complexly and transfor-matively – gender divides. The result is an extremely compelling hybrid text such as neither writer could have imagined or written without the other.
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Western Humanities Review; Winter2009, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p43
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... View all notes. Early in the era, Tennyson's 'Lady of Shalott' (1832; 1842), in which looking at a man dooms a creative woman to abandon her art for the sake of dying beautifully, and Browning's... more
... View all notes. Early in the era, Tennyson's 'Lady of Shalott' (1832; 1842), in which looking at a man dooms a creative woman to abandon her art for the sake of dying beautifully, and Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover' (1836; 1842), a dramatic monologue in which the speaker kills ...
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Kafka’s Other Prague: Writings from the Czechoslovak Republic examines Kafka’s late writings from the perspective of the author’s changing relationship with Czech language, culture, and literature—the least understood facet of his... more
Kafka’s Other Prague: Writings from the Czechoslovak Republic examines Kafka’s late writings from the perspective of the author’s changing relationship with Czech language, culture, and literature—the least understood facet of his meticulously researched life and work.