Lucidity : essays in honour of Alison Finch / edited by Ian James and Emma Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Lucidity and tact / Ian James -- 2. 'À propos, ou hors de propos, il n'importe' : relevance theory and Montaigne / Neil Kenny -- 3. Lucidity and misrecognition in late Corneille / Michael Moriarty -- 4. Flaubert : lucidity, mysticism, and the senses / Tim Unwin -- 5. Lucidity, modernity : Mallarm©♭, Morisot, and Zola / Susan Harrow -- 6. Easy reading : Zola's Kitsch / Claire White -- 7. The fog of war : Impressionism and Zola revisited / Nicholas White -- 8. Baudelaire, Bonnefoy, Jeanne Duval : poetry and ethical lucidity / Michael Sheringham -- 9. The peculiar lucidities of verse form : translation as an operation of consciousness / Clive Scott -- 10. Marcel Proust, on and off / Thomas Baldwin -- 11. Seeing clearly into the past : Sartre and Beauvoir at war / Colin Davis -- 12. Nathalie Sarraute's domestic spaces : windows, walls, and blinding lucidity / Ann Jefferson -- 13. 'Et la raison vacilla' : sociality as burden in Tahar Djaout and Mohammed Dib / Edward J. Hughes -- 14. 'The open sea but not the wilderness' : light and clarity in the late work of Colette and Agnes Varda / Diana Holmes -- 15. Varda's hermitage : the Madonna del Parto and La pointe courte / Emma Wilson.