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The power of imagination to construct those mythos which alone, according to Barres, give sense and value to our absurd existence and by which, above all, men are moved to believe and act, was at the centre of his life-long preoccupation with the art of arousing and directing spiritual energy in individuals and groups. This preoccupation appears in every context of his varied career-as novelist, essayist, journalist, orator, self-conscious Egotist, Romantic traveller, anti-Dreyfusard, religious syncretist and pragmatist, and, with Charles Maurras, one of the most influential founders and exponents of modern French nationalism. His great originality among French political writers of the twentieth century is to have consciously applied Baudelaire's 'Queen of Faculties' and the insights of post-Baudelairian Symbolism to the enterprise of committed literature, using a 'picturesque and musical' language of persuasion, 'without logic-chopping, syllogisms and deductions,' such as Baudelaire had first defined in 'Le Confiteor de l'artiste.' Philip Ouston's book traces the development of Barres's ideas concerning the observed 'energetic' and 'constructive' functions of mytho-poetic imagination in the lives of individuals and the government of societies, investigates the techniques of persuasion and figures of rhetoric he evolved for the purpose of maintaining or reawakening the political and religious imagination of his contemporaries, and describes his own imagined world of private and public symbols from Le Culte du Moi to Le Mystere en pleine lumiere. It will revive interest in Barres and answer questions about the nature of imagination and particular modes of imagining-topics that have long been the concern of the New Criticism in North American and France.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. --- Barrès, Maurice, --- Barrès, M. --- Barrès, Maurycy, --- Barrès, Maurizio, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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The dramatic political struggle of Boris Pasternak and the continued success of his novel. Dr. Zhivago, have often taken center stage in discussions of this writer. Olga Raevsky Hughes chooses instead to focus on the aesthetics underlying Pasternak's snuggles and successes to explore the ways in which his views of art and the artist were applied in his writings. Professor Hughes examines those aspects of Pasternak's views on art that he himself considered crucial: the beginnings of poetry in his life, the relation of his art to life, his relationship to his time, and his responsibility to lite and to society.Pasternak's views on art are analyzed as he himself saw them in his autobiographies, critical essays, and letters; and also as they were reflected in his work.Pasternak is allowed to speak for himself: accordingly, all of his published works are used, including letters, little-known works, and available variants of his early poems.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Pasternak, Boris --- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- Пастернак, Борис Леонидович, --- Pa-ssŭ-tʻê-na-kʻo, --- Bastirnāk, Būrīs, --- Paszternák, Borisz Leonyidovics, --- Пастернак, Борис, --- Pasternak, Boris, --- Пастернак, Б. --- Pasternak, B. --- Pasternac, B., --- Pasternak, Borys, --- פאסטערנאק, באָריס, --- פאסטערנאק, באריס --- פסטרנאק, בוריס, --- פסטרנק, בוריס --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליאונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס ליונידוביטש, --- פסטרנק, בוריס, --- Languages & Literatures --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union).