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- Title
Reading, Marks, Love: Rousseau, Stendhal, Baudelaire.
- Authors
Hunter, Angela
- Abstract
This essay explores reading's impact on love as figured in encounters between a lover and a pockmarked beloved in Rousseau ( Confessions and Julie: ou la Nouvelle Hééloïïse), Stendhal ( De l'amour) and Baudelaire (''Choix de maximes consolantes sur l'amour''). The marks (of pox, of love, of reading) addressed in and between these texts demonstrate that there is no position from which reading can be controlled. Further, we find that there is no subject who can foreclose love's (re-)readings and no mark that can stand outside of reading's context.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; LOVE in literature; ROMANTICISM; DECONSTRUCTION; READING interests
- Publication
Oxford Literary Review, 2011, Vol 33, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0305-1498
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3366/olr.2011.0005