Jean Starobinski, The Living Eye

• Jean Starobinski, The Living Eye
• Harvard UP | 1989 | ISBN 0674536649 | 262 Pages | PDF OCR | 6.2 MB
• This recent addition to the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature appeared first in French in 1961 (L'Oeil Vivant).
• Jean Starobinski, a major critic in Europe and this country, has written for this translation a brief preface in which he traces the history of his interest in the opposition between appearance and reality in literary texts. Arthur Goldhammer helps in his excellent translation to clarify the many metaphysical discussions.
• For Starobinski the critic is the man richly endowed for under standing himself but who gives himself over to the task of understanding something outside of himself. This is his function, this is his urgency. He must seek to establish an almost inconceivable relationship with something foreign to himself.
• TOC: Poppaea's veil -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the peril of reflection -- Pseudonymous Stendhal -- The critical relation -- Psychoanalysis and literary understanding -- Hamlet and Oedipus -- The interpreter's progress.
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