Shifting Borders: Theory and Identity in French Literature - Couverture souple

Robson, Kathryn; Butterworth, Emily

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3906766861 ISBN 13 : 9783906766867

Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2001

Synopsis

This volume, containing selected papers from a conference held by the Department of French in the University of Cambridge in 1999, addresses the exciting and challenging figure of the shifting border in modern French literature and literary theory. Using a variety of critical approaches, the contributors map the fluctuating borders in specific literary texts and explore how these moving boundaries reflect on their practice of literary analysis. Inspired by the ideas of European and American thinkers, including Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan and Jean-François Lyotard, they consider three major areas of current concern : the construction of identity, the conceptualisation of literary genres and the demarcation of geographical and cultural domains. Applying their insights to a wide-ranging corpus of francophone texts, this volume analyses the work both of canonical figures such as Mallarmé, Proust and Zola and of lesser-known writers such as Aimé Césaire, Assia Djebar and St. John Perse.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Editors : Emily Butterworth is completing a Ph.D. in early seventeenth-century French literature at Girton College, Cambridge. Kathryn Robson is completing a Ph.D. in contemporary French women's writing at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3906766861
• ISBN 13: 9783906766867
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne