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At the Border
Margins and Peripheries in Modern France
Av Henrice Altink, Sharif Gemie
Inbunden, 2007
116 kr
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Through a discussion of border identities, this book presents a balance-sheet of key developments in modern French society and culture in the context of globalization. It seeks to re-define and re-consider the notion of the border in respect of the identification of a variety of visible and …
Memory and Politics
Representations of War in the Work of Louis Aragon
Inbunden, 2007
130 kr
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Reputation of Louis Aragon (1897-1982) is built upon his activities during the Second World War when his poetry embodied the spirit of the French Resistance. This book goes beyond the figure of the Resistance poet to explore the significance of the subject of war throughout his career.
Haunting Presences
Ghosts in French Literature and Culture
Av David Evans, Kate Griffiths
Inbunden, 2009
267 kr
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This book responds to the current critical interest in phantoms and haunting. It explores and assesses the twentieth century's fascination with the ghost in relation to notions of identity, authorship and memory, tracing the changing form of the ghost in key twentieth-century French media: film, …
French Muslims
New Voices in Contemporary France
Av Sharif Gemie
Inbunden, 2010
137 kr
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"French Muslims" provides a critical perspective on Muslim politics and experiences in contemporary France, the European country with the largest Muslim population. Drawing from the work of four Muslim thinkers and activists - Chahdortt Djavann, Fadela Amara, Tariq Ramadan, and Houria Bouteldja - …
French Fiction into the Twenty-First Century
The Return to the Story
Av Simon Kemp
Inbunden, 2010
206 kr
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Explores the state of French fiction through an examination of the work of five major French writers, Annie Ernaux, Pascal Quignard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz and Patrick Modiano. This book deals with some of the writers on British and American university French courses.
French Fiction into the Twenty-First Century
The Return to the Story
Av Simon Kemp
E-bok, 2010
176 kr
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Explores the state of French fiction through an examination of the work of five major French writers, Annie Ernaux, Pascal Quignard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz and Patrick Modiano. This book deals with some of the writers on British and American university French courses.
Wine Drinking Culture in France
A National Myth or a Modern Passion?
E-bok, 2010
77 kr
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This book provides a new interpretation of the relationship between consumption, drinking culture, memory and cultural identity in an age of rapid political and economic change. Using France as a case-study it explores the construction of a national drinking culture -the myths, symbols and …
French Muslims
New Voices in Contemporary France
Av Sharif Gemie
E-bok, 2010
104 kr
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it …
Memories of May '68
France's Convenient Consensus
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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This book charts and analyses the emergence of the conventional representation of the French events of 1968 and argues that the dominance of this narrative, despite its limitations, stems from the convenience that such a consensus provides for those that have been pivotal in shaping the collective …
Mindscapes of Montreal
Quebec's Urban Novel, 1960-2005
Av Ceri Morgan
Inbunden, 2012
906 kr
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In examining a number of francophone Montreal novels from 1960 to 2005, this interdisciplinary study considers the ways in which these connect with material landscapes to produce a city of neighbourhoods. In so doing, it reflects on how Montreal has been seen as both home and not home for …
Mindscapes of Montreal
Quebec's Urban Novel, 1960-2005
Av Ceri Morgan
E-bok, 2012
352 kr
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This innovative study of the Montreal novel in French looks at how imaginary and material landscapes come together to produce a city of neighbourhoods.
Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France
Life as Literature
Av Amaleena Damlé, Gill Rye m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
293 kr
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Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the …
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
Av Andrew Watts, Kate Griffiths
Inbunden, 2013
1552 kr
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This book uses six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to argue a reconceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals to be defended from adapting hands, but as …
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
Av Kate Griffiths, Andrew Watts
E-bok, 2013
615 kr
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This book uses six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to argue a reconceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals to be defended from adapting hands, but as …
Cinema and the Republic
Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France
E-bok, 2013
568 kr
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This book analyses contemporary French films by focussing closely on cinematic representations of immigrants and residents of suburban housing estates known as banlieues. It begins by examining how these groups are conceived of within France's Republican political model before analysing films that …
France's Colonial Legacies
Memory, Identity and Narrative
Av Fiona Barclay, Fiona Barclay
Inbunden, 2013
811 kr
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In an era of commemoration, France's Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contemporary life of the nation, debates that have been underway since the 1990s and that now reach across public life and society with manifestations in the …
France's Colonial Legacies
Memory, Identity and Narrative
Av Fiona Barclay, Fiona Barclay
E-bok, 2013
472 kr
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In an era of commemoration, France's Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contemporary life of the nation, debates that have been underway since the 1990s and that now reach across public life and society with manifestations in the …
Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France
Life as Literature
Av Amaleena Damlé, Gill Rye m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
299 kr
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Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the …
Wine Drinking Culture in France
A National Myth or a Modern Passion?
E-bok, 2010
77 kr
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This book provides a new interpretation of the relationship between consumption, drinking culture, memory and cultural identity in an age of rapid political and economic change. Using France as a case-study it explores the construction of a national drinking culture -the myths, symbols and …
Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France
Life as Literature
Av Amaleena Damlé, Gill Rye m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
298 kr
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Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the …
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
Av Kate Griffiths, Andrew Watts
Häftad, 2015
298 kr
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This book uses six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to argue a reconceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals to be defended from adapting hands, but as …
French Fiction into the Twenty-First Century
The Return to the Story
Av Simon Kemp
E-bok, 2010
170 kr
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The French novel’s “return to the story” in the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is has been widely acknowledged in literary scholarship. But is this assessment accurate? With French Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, Simon Kemp looks at the work of five …
Memories of May '68
France's Convenient Consensus
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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Memories of May 68 charts the emergence of the conventional representation of the French events of 1968 and argues that the dominance of this narrative, despite its limitations, stems from the convenience that such a consensus provides for those that have been pivotal in shaping the collective …
Mindscapes of Montreal
Quebec's Urban Novel, 1960-2005
Av Ceri Morgan
E-bok, 2012
352 kr
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In examining a number of francophone Montréal novels from 1960 to 2005, this interdisciplinary study considers the ways in which these connect with material landscapes to produce a city of neighbourhoods. In so doing, it reflects on how Montréal has been seen as both home and not home for …
Cinema and the Republic
Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France
E-bok, 2013
236 kr
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This book analyses contemporary French films by focussing closely on cinematic representations of immigrants and residents of suburban housing estates known as banlieues. It begins by examining how these groups are conceived of within France's Republican political model before analysing films that …
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
Av Andrew Watts, Kate Griffiths
E-bok, 2015
176 kr
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Adapting Nineteenth-Century France uses the output of six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to push for a re-conceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals …
France's Colonial Legacies
Memory, Identity and Narrative
Av Fiona Barclay, Fiona Barclay
E-bok, 2013
457 kr
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In an era of commemoration, France's Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contemporary life of the nation, debates that have been underway since the 1990s and that now reach across public life and society with manifestations in the …
French Muslims
New Voices in Contemporary France
Av Sharif Gemie
E-bok, 2010
107 kr
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it …
Americanism, Media, and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France
Inbunden, 2016
884 kr
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Gangsters, aviators, hard-boiled detectives, gunslingers, jazz and images of the American metropolis were all an inextricable part of the cultural landscape of interwar France. While the French 1930s have long been understood as profoundly anti-American, this book shows how a young, up-and-coming …
Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture
Countering Crises
Av Angela Kimyongür, Helena Chadderton
Inbunden, 2017
987 kr
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In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Francophone writers, artists, intellectuals and film-makers are using their work to confront unforeseen and unprecedented challenges, campaigns and causes in …
