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Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature

From Loti to Genet

Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature( )
Author: Hughes, Edward J.
Contribution by: Sheringham, Michael
Series title:Cambridge Studies in French Ser.
ISBN:978-0-521-64296-5
Publication Date:Apr 2001
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $160.95
Book Description:

Hughes explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyses the hierarchies of cultural value which inform the work of six modern French writers: the exoticist Pierre Loti; Paul Gauguin, whose Noa Noa enacts European fantasies about Polynesia; Proust, who analyses such exemplary figures of exclusion and inclusion as the homosexual and the xenophobe; Montherlant; Camus, who pleads an alienating...
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Book Details
Pages:222
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / French
Literary Criticism / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm
Book Weight:0.5 Kilograms



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