Gravity and Grace: Essays for Roger Pearson

Charlie Louth; Patrick McGuinness

Gravity and Grace
Essays for Roger Pearson

Edited by Charlie Louth and Patrick McGuinness

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Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), French poet

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Samuel Beckett (1906-89), Irish playwright

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Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98), French poet

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25 February 2019 • 240pp

ISBN: 978-1-781887-87-5 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95

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Gravity and grace are spiritual terms, but they can also offer us a way to think about literature. Grace may mean not only the felicity and ease – what Schiller refers to as the ‘mobile beauty’ – inhabiting certain works of art, but also the sense of something given, or about to be given, by a work as we read it: something incalculable, perhaps accidental, but vital and regenerative. Like a promise, this quality also needs gravity, a sense of substance within it. The gracefulness of a dancer relies upon gravity, and the grace of a text depends on the weight of words. These matters are pursued here in essays on subjects ranging from Voltaire to Ali Smith, from Baudelaire to Beckett, not forgetting Mallarmé, and offered to Roger Pearson in honour of the grace and gravity of his own writing.

Reviews:

‘A core series of contributions offers a remarkably sustained and rich reflection on the interplay between the aesthetic and ethical notions of gravity and grace.’ — Scott M. Powers, H-France 20, June 2020, no. 92
‘Works of art function by allowing something to happen, rather than by making something happen, and are nothing without our active participation. The prescriptive weightiness of words in practical discourse is not what poetry, especially, puts in play. That certainly makes this book a fitting tribute to the wonderful work of Roger Pearson, whose own writing is never heavy, never pedantic, but always invites and inspires the reader to continue thinking beyond the page.’ — Peter Dayan, Modern Language Review 116.1, 2020, 188-89 (full text online)

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1-4	Introduction Charlie Louth, Patrick McGuinness doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.3	Cite
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5-5	Poem: A Cricket For Pirandello Angela Leighton doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.4	Cite
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6-23	1 Traces of Grace in Contemporary Fiction: Ali Smith’s There but for the Clare Connors doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.5	Cite
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24-27	2 Weight and Wit: The Grace of Voltaire’s Enlightenment T. J. Reed doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.6	Cite
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28-39	3 Gravity, Grace, and Gore: French Gloves in the Nineteenth Century Anne Green doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.7	Cite
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40-54	4 ‘Marcher droit sur un cheveu’: Tightrope Walking and Prose Poetry in Flaubert Kate Rees doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.8	Cite
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55-69	5 Le Juste Milieu: Political Pornography in numa’s ‘pièce à porte’ Natasha Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.9	Cite
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70-84	6 ‘Grâces sataniques’: Laughter, Redemption, and Poetic Self-Awareness in Les Fleurs du mal Kate Etheridge doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.10	Cite
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85-92	7 Quant au Livre de Mallarmé Bertrand Marchal doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.11	Cite
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93-111	8 Gautier, Leconte, Mallarmé: Gravity Redeeming Grace? Tim Farrant doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.12	Cite
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112-129	9 Rediscovering Beckford’s ‘Satiric Gravity’: Mallarmé’s Rehabilitation of the ‘French’ Vathek Damian Catani doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.13	Cite
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130-145	10 Literary Translation, Responsibility, and the Linguistic Lightness of Being Clive Scott doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.14	Cite
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146-160	11 Fighting Against the Fall: Gravity and Grace in Beckett’s Nouvelles Adam Watt doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.15	Cite
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161-177	12 Gravity and Grace: Bonnefoy’s and Bergson’s ‘Monde-images’ Emily McLaughlin doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.16	Cite
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178-194	13 Grace and Gravity in Philippe Jaccottet Charlie Louth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.17	Cite
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195-206	14 Feathers, Scales, and Hollow Eggs: Lightness and Weight in Mercè Rodoreda’s La plaça del Diamant Laura Lonsdale doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.18	Cite
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207-226	15 The Permissions of Translation Patrick McGuinness doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.19	Cite
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227-227	Poem: Dancer David Constantine doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.20	Cite
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228-232	INDEX Charlie Louth, Patrick McGuinness doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km193.21	Cite
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Louth, Charlie, and Patrick McGuinness (eds), Gravity and Grace: Essays for Roger Pearson (Legenda, 2019)

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Gravity and GraceEssays for Roger Pearson

Edited by Charlie Louth and Patrick McGuinness

Gravity and Grace
Essays for Roger Pearson