LEADER 03352nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910823059403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-7507-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804775076 035 $a(CKB)2670000000057994 035 $a(EBL)594193 035 $a(OCoLC)676697894 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411342 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12172067 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411342 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10357349 035 $a(PQKB)11656364 035 $a(DE-B1597)563761 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804775076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC594193 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769366 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000057994 100 $a20091218d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|uu|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAdventures in the French trade $efragments toward a life /$fJeffrey Mehlman 210 $aStanford, CA $cStanford University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (197 p.) 225 1 $aCultural memory in the present 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-6961-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tContent --$tContents Preface --$t1. Beginning and End --$t2. Initiation: Bécheron --$t3. New York/Angoulême --$t4. Boston/Vichy --$t5. Hugo 2000: Fiction --$t6. Kandahar 2001: Fact --$tteachers --$t7. Chiasmus --$t8. Derrida --$t9. Bellow in Boston --$t10. Antinomian Steiner --$t11. A Professor Retires --$t12. Genet in New Haven: Repercussions and Resonances --$t13. Mother Harvard --$t14. The Heart of the Matter: A Graduation Address --$t15. Louis Wolfson --$t16. Walter Benjamin --$t17. Afrancesado: Coda in Buenos Aires --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes 330 $aThis memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache?his injured and occasionally injurious love?for France and the French. The reader will encounter masters of the art of reading in these pages, the exhilaration elicited by their achievements, and the unexpected (and occasionally unsettling) resonances those achievements have had in the author's life. With all its idiosyncrasies, Adventures in the French Trade depicts an intellectual generation in ways that will attract not only people who recall the heady days of the rise and reign of French theory but also those who do not. This provocative book should be of interest to students of intellectual history, literary criticism, Jewish studies, the history of American academia, and the genre of the memoir itself. 410 0$aCultural memory in the present. 606 $aFrench studies specialists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCritics$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aLitterateurs$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aFrench studies specialists 615 0$aCritics 615 0$aLitterateurs 676 $a944.0072/02 676 $aB 700 $aMehlman$b Jeffrey$0615688 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823059403321 996 $aAdventures in the French Trade$94102999 997 $aUNINA