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Matters of Time provides an unorthodox array of perspectives on materialist thought and representation in twentieth-century French intellectual culture. Time is figured as the quintessential revolutionary concept, through key historical moments from Jean Jaurès’...
Picturing the end of the world is one of the most enduring of cultural practices. The ways in which people of different historical periods conceive of this endpoint reveals a great deal about their imagination and philosophical horizons. This groundbreaking collection...
This volume is based on papers given at the biennial Women in French conference held in Leeds in May 2011. Drawing on a range of interconnecting disciplines and forms of cultural production, it explores the relationship between French and Francophone women and the...
This book examines policy planning and implementation and language variation in the realm of intercultural communication in France, Europe, the Americas, Australia, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to discern trends in the development of...
Gérard Genette’s seminal study of the paratext, Seuils (1987), is the starting point for this collection of essays, all of which seek not only to engage with Genette’s taxonomy and apply it, but also to interrogate it and to move through and beyond it. In addition to...
This multidisciplinary edited volume examines wide-ranging exchanges between France and its Mediterranean neighbours and their impact. It questions the changing notion of a Mediterranean space and its representation, centrality and relevance in terms of France’s...
Originating in the conference held at the University of Cambridge in 2009, this collection of essays includes a range of innovative papers from across the diverse field of French and Francophone studies. From medieval texts to the dramatization of the novel, from...
In a culture increasingly obsessed with the visual, self-image and extreme self-exposure, in which reality is constantly obscured and misrepresented through concealment and spin, the roles display and disguise play in literature, thought and visual culture are...
Since the early 1980s, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of international gay/lesbian-themed visual productions, ranging from pornographic images and television programmes to advertising and graphic novels. Often originating from countries with a...
This collection of essays celebrates twenty years of Women in French, a network of female academics working in the discipline of French Studies. Based on papers delivered at the group’s tenth biennial conference in Leeds, which was entitled ‘Le parcours’, the volume...
Inspired by the work of their colleague David Gascoigne, a group of scholars from the UK and France examine in this book the narrative strategies of some of the most interesting and important French writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Stretching...
As theoretical positions and as affective experiences, the twin currents of contrition – guilt and shame – permeate literary discourse and figure prominently in discussions of ethics, history, sexuality and social hierarchy. This collection of essays, on French and...
This book offers a selection of the papers presented at the 2008 annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF), with chapters focusing on regional formation, European policy, the cultural landscape of Paris, the place of...
Inspired by a postgraduate French studies conference (University of Nottingham, 10 September 2008), this volume explores linguistic form and content in relation to a variety of contexts, considering language alongside music, images, theatre, human experience of the...
This collection of essays arises from the 2005 Cambridge French Graduate Conference on the theme of threat. From the baleful and ubiquitous eyes of surveillance cameras to the ever-present possibility of total nuclear annihilation, threat is everywhere around us. Yet...
« Quel plus beau mot en français, mais si modeste […] que ce verbe-ci : ‘entre-tenir’. Tenir de l’entre, tenir par l’entre, avoir de l’entre en mains. L’entretien du monde […] Ou l’entretien par la parole : chacun ouvre sa position et la déplie – la découvre – vis-à-vis...
Le présent volume vise à questionner la place qu’entretiennent les textures dans le champ de l’expérience esthétique. Dans une image, un texte, un mouvement quelque chose se trame, achoppe, râpe, se défait et se déforme ; une couleur, une tache, une ligne, un tracé, une...
Où va l’autobiographie ? Alors qu’elle évolue entre les genres, entre les cultures et les langues, ainsi qu’entre les nouveaux moyens de capter et d’archiver la vie, on remarque qu’elle constitue plus que jamais un lieu d’expérimentation et d’innovation pour les auteurs...
Cet ouvrage regroupe les contributions de la journée du français qui a eu lieu à l’Université d’Oxford en décembre 2010 sous l’intitulé « Comme on nous parle ! Culture et média francophones ». Les textes se répartissent selon deux axes : d’une part les médias oraux sous...
Ce recueil d’études, ce Festschrift, fête l’œuvre de Béatrice Bonhomme et en même temps en fait l’analyse critique. Depuis vingt ans Bonhomme nourrit la poésie française de sa contribution d’écrivain, de professeur de lettres à Nice et d’éditrice de la revue Nu(e) où...
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