Nottingham French Studies Special Issues – serie
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Still French? France and the Challenge of Diversity, 1985-2015
Nottingham French Studies Volume 54, Number 3
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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In a provocative 1985 cover story featuring the face of Marianne obscured by an Islamic veil, Le Figaro Magazine asked: "Serons-nous encore français dans trente ans?". With those thirty years now spanned, where does France stand in relation to the fears, challenges and opportunities associated with changing perceptions of ethnic and cultural diversity within and beyond the nation’s borders? Is the France of 2015 still French in the same way or to the same degree as the France of 1985? Where do the most significant challenges to "Frenchness" now lie? In Islamism? In the "banlieues"? In European integration? In American hegemony? Is "Frenchness" itself, championed by political elites under the banner of "l’exception culturelle", an outmoded concept, destined to wither in the face of transnational forces? These are among the issues addressed by contributors to this volume, spanning a wide range of topics and disciplinary approaches including politics, literature, film and sport.
UK Perspectives on Francophone Canada
Nottingham French Studies Volume 55, Issue 2
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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The invited contributions will reflect the disciplinary scope of UK-based research in the field of Francophone Canadian Studies as well as highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of much of this research. While many of the contributions focus on contemporary issues and contemporary culture, there is also an awareness of the historical development of francophone culture in Canada and the distinctive demographic, political and linguistic factors which continue to shape it.
Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France: Studies in Honour of Stephen Bamforth
Nottingham French Studies Volume 56, Issue 3
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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Explores the entwinement of early modern text, knowledge and wonder, and their connections in FranceA triple nexus of text, knowledge, and wonder permeated much literary, learned, and ceremonial culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. There were endless variations on the combination, often with two of the three elements predominating. This volume tracks some of those variations as they appeared in collections of natural wonders, pedagogical situations, a family, an alchemical romance, a carnival festivity, a learned society, and poetry.Key FeaturesContent written in English and French.The contributors to this volume are leading specialists in early modern French studies, from France and the UK.Considers the development of natural wonders, monsters and mythical animals, alchemical symbols and concepts of friendship and rivalry.
Science, Technology & Culture in Modern & Contemporary France: Essays in Memory of Chris Johnson
Nottingham French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 3
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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The collection brings together articles focusing on science, technology and culture in France, all of which intersect in various ways with the research interests of Professor Chris Johnson. The articles engage with the rich French-language tradition of philosophical speculation on science, scientific practice, and the relationship between the human and technology. The collection engages with a wide conceptual field, including the following: embodiment, the pre- and post-human, language, cybernetics, biological and technological evolution, and genetics. Drawing on philosophy, anthropology and science writing, the articles explore from different perspectives the way in which French thinkers have consistently questioned commonly held assumptions about the relationship between the human and the technological, and also between science, machines and the natural world. These were core preoccupations of Chris Johnson’s work and of those colleagues – several of whom have contributed to this collection – who were fortunate to collaborate with him and share his passionate engagement with these issues.