Bernard Shaw and the French 1st Edition by Michel Pharand ISBN 0813018285 978-0813018287

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ISBN 10: 0813018285

ISBN 13:  978-0813018287

Author: Michel W. Pharand

“A thoroughly researched and fascinating survey of Shaw’s relations with French culture, containing a wealth of new information. Indispensable for every library and for any scholar henceforth investigating Shaw and the French.”– John A. Bertolini, Middlebury College

Michel Pharand analyzes the curiously ambiguous relationship between George Bernard Shaw and all things French. While Shaw often proclaimed his abiding distaste and disdain for the French culture, Pharand unveils convincing evidence of the playwright’s debts to and affinities with many aspects of it. He paints the clearest picture yet seen of the reception Shaw and his plays received from French writers, critics, theater people, and the public–a remarkable history of misunderstandings (willful and otherwise), of nationalistic prejudices, of clashes of temperament and incompatible sensibilities.

No other full-length work explores Shaw’s wide-ranging French connections so thoroughly. Pharand uses many heretofore unexamined documents–correspondence, articles, reviews–to reveal how Shaw’s translators often distorted his plays; how, as a result, French critics misunderstood them; and how Shaw himself contributed significantly to the formation and promotion of his controversial reputation in France. Pharand also examines much recently published material by Shaw–early diaries, book reviews, art and music criticism, correspondence, biographies–to shed new light on his knowledge of and views on the culture
and literature of France.

Encompassing a wide range of sociohistorical and cross-cultural perspectives, this highly original work will be a delight to scholars of French, English, comparative literature, and theater history and to cultural historians and Shavians of all stripes.

Michel W. Pharand teaches in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. He has published many articles on Shaw and related topics and is editor of the Carcanet edition of The Greek Myths, by Robert Graves.

Table of contents: 

Part I. Shaw et les Beaux-Arts

1. Shaw in the Picture-Galleries: “I am no critic of Art”

2. Shaw in the Concert Halls: “I purposely vulgarized musical criticism”

Part II. Shaw et le Théâtre
3. The Old Grooves: Shaw and the French Theater
4. The Siren on the Rock: An Exasperation with Sarah Bernhardt
5. The Ruthless Revealer: An Encomium to Eugène Brieux

Part III. Shaw Traduit et Critiqué
6. Shaw Frenchified: Augustin and Henriette Hamon Rewrite Shaw
7. Outrageous: Shaw and the French Press

Part IV. Shaw et Jeanne d’Arc
8. The Trials of Jeanne d’Arc: From Peasant-Warrior to Piteous Waif
9. Jeanne after Joan: Shaw’s Joan and Two French Incarnations
10. The Disabled Skeptic: A Limited Esteem for Anatole France

Part V. Shaw et la Guerre
11. Shaw’s Man of Destiny: The Decline and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte
12. The Politics of Pacifism: At War with Romain Rolland

Part VI. Shaw et les Penseurs
13. The River-God and the Thinker: At Meudon with Auguste Rodin
14. Creative Evolution: The Rise of the Life Force

15. Optimistic Vitalism: Converging Toward God

16. Shaw’s Protoexistentialism: In Hell with Jean-Paul Sartre

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