- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Eighteenth Century -
Chapter 2 Genius Obscured -
Chapter 3 Language, Religion, Nation -
Chapter 4 Individual versus Collective Genius -
Chapter 5 The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius -
Chapter 6 Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, and the Dynasty of Genius -
Chapter 7 Genius under Observation -
Chapter 8 Genius, Neurosis, and Family Trees -
Chapter 9 Genius Restored to Health -
Chapter 10 A Novel of Female Genius -
Chapter 11 Balzac’s Louis Lambert -
Chapter 12 Creativity and Procreation in Zola’s L’Œuvre -
Chapter 13 Exemplarity and Performance in Literature for Children -
Chapter 14 Alfred Binet and the Measurement of Intelligence -
Chapter 15 Minou Drouet -
Chapter 16 Cultural Critique and the End of Genius -
Chapter 17 The Return of Genius -
Chapter 18 Julia Kristeva and Female Genius -
Chapter 19 Derrida, Cixous, and the Impostor - Bibliography
- Index
The Return of Genius
The Return of Genius
Mad Poets
- Chapter:
- (p.204) Chapter 17 The Return of Genius
- Source:
- Genius in France
- Author(s):
Ann Jefferson
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter chronicles the return of genius as a viable object of thought, this time in the context of madness. It first turns to the conjunction between neurosis and full-blown psychosis where genius commands greatest attention in the latter half of the twentieth century. This is explored in the case of Friedrich Hölderlin, who becomes the object of theoretical attention in the early 1950s. The chapter shows how, in the early years of theory Pierre Jean Jouve (a poet-essayist, more than a theorist in the late twentieth-century style) and Maurice Blanchot have examined the case of Hölderlin, with supporting illustration from other examples.
Keywords: mad poets, madness, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Hölderlin, Pierre Jean Jouve, Maurice Blanchot, French theory, insanity, psychoanalysis
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Eighteenth Century -
Chapter 2 Genius Obscured -
Chapter 3 Language, Religion, Nation -
Chapter 4 Individual versus Collective Genius -
Chapter 5 The Romantic Poet and the Brotherhood of Genius -
Chapter 6 Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, and the Dynasty of Genius -
Chapter 7 Genius under Observation -
Chapter 8 Genius, Neurosis, and Family Trees -
Chapter 9 Genius Restored to Health -
Chapter 10 A Novel of Female Genius -
Chapter 11 Balzac’s Louis Lambert -
Chapter 12 Creativity and Procreation in Zola’s L’Œuvre -
Chapter 13 Exemplarity and Performance in Literature for Children -
Chapter 14 Alfred Binet and the Measurement of Intelligence -
Chapter 15 Minou Drouet -
Chapter 16 Cultural Critique and the End of Genius -
Chapter 17 The Return of Genius -
Chapter 18 Julia Kristeva and Female Genius -
Chapter 19 Derrida, Cixous, and the Impostor - Bibliography
- Index
