| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 372 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in modern and contemporary France |
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Studies in modern and contemporary France.
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| Contents |
The Metamorphosis / Pierre Nora -- Historicizing French universalism: the case of Jewish emancipation / Maurice Samuels -- Universalisms and Francophonics / Françoise Lionnet -- A European culture exists / Julia Kristeva -- Death drives: Freud and Proust / Peter Brooks -- Foreigners and strangers: Jews in French society and literature between the the two World Wars / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Bernard Frank and Patrick Modiano: Jewish writers / Gerald Prince -- Beckett's French resistance / Barbara Will -- Between acceptance and betrayal: Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener, sue Labat / Nelly Furman -- In the shadow of the Iron Curtain: the photo album and the Francophone (dis)connection / Roxana Verona -- Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem / Hélène Cixous -- Mallarmé Médiéval / R. Howard Bloch -- What's in a word? Language, philosophy, and satire in troubadour poetry / Stephen G. Nichols -- What's in a word? Language, philosophy, and satire in troubadour poetry / Stephen G. Nichols -- Rousseau's late botany: living to the end / Pierre Saint-Amand -- Mallarmé's gardens of culinary delights / Albert Sonnenfeld -- The book, inside and out / Warren Motte -- Internal senses and the history of the Western subject / Georges Vigarello -- The author's afterlife: what is a posthumous truth? / François Noudelmann -- What happens when I read / J. Hillis Miller -- What happens when I read / J. Hillis Miller -- 'African philosophy': the history of an expression / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Making history or preventing the world from unraveling / François Hartog -- Philosophy and contemporary reality: beyond the event? / Etienne Balibar -- Jacque Derrida's pedagogical imperative for the sciences / Brian J. Reilly -- For Lawrence Kritzman / Pierre Nora -- To Larry Kritzman / Julia Kristeva |
| Summary |
Revisioning French Culture brings together a striking group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and Francophone Studies. Covering the medieval period through the twenty-first century, this volume presents investigations into a vast array of subjects, with global Francophonie as its primary focal point |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Culture -- History
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Culture and globalization -- France -- History
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Civilization
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Culture
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Culture and globalization
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051184
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France -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051500
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sobanet, Andrew, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781789624366 |
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1789624363 |
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