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The modern essay in French : movement, instability, performance / Charles Forsdick & Andrew Stafford (eds).

Title
The modern essay in French : movement, instability, performance / Charles Forsdick & Andrew Stafford (eds).
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Forsdick, Charles.
  • Stafford, Andy.
Description
295 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Modern French identities, 1422-9005 ; v. 41
Uniform Title
Modern French identities v. 41.
Subject
  • French essays > History and criticism
  • French prose literature > History and criticism
  • Essay
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-289) and index.
Language (note)
  • In English and French.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
British and French traditions of the essay / Peter France -- De la plume comme des pieds : the essay as a peripatetic genre / Charles Forsdick -- Ethno-fictions : ethnographie, narrativité et fiction chez Marc Augé / Mar Garcia -- The emergence of the essayistic voice in francophone African women writers : Véronique Tadjo's L'Ombre d'Imana / Sonia Lee -- The essay and the everyday : reading Perec with Adorno / Michael Sheringham -- Non-pareille : issues in modern French photo-essayism / Andy Stafford -- Pierre Michon : self-performance and the marchland of the essay / Patrick Crowley -- A couple of cusps : devices of generic self-situation in a piece by Colette / Anne Freadman -- Ceci sort du cadre limité de cet essai : Jean Grenier and the essay as art form / Toby Garfitt -- Paysages du genre : Segalen et l'essai / Marielle Macé -- Essayistic practices in the non-fictional prose of Pius Ngandu Nkashama / Aedín Ní Loingsigh -- Les essais de Pascal Quignard sur la musique / Claude Coste -- The essay as performance : Michel Foucault's L'Ordre du discours / Robert Crawshaw -- A flower? : Stéphane Mallarmé and the poetic essay / Kuisma Korhonen -- Extimate self-portraits : the inversion of the journal intime in Michel Tournier's essays / Fui Lee Luk -- The power of reason : universality and truth in the anti-colonial essai / David Murphy.
ISBN
  • 0820475203 (US-ISBN)
  • 3039105140 (ISBN)
OCLC
  • 62872502
  • SCSB-11443842
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library