Haunting Presences Ghosts in French Literature and Culture |
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Editor:
| Griffiths, Kate Evans, David |
Series title: | French and Francophone Studies |
ISBN: | 978-0-7083-2181-2 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2009 |
Publisher: | Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $21.00 |
Book Description:
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This book responds to the current critical interest in phantoms and haunting. It explores and assesses the twentieth centurys fascination with the ghost in relation to notions of identity, authorship and memory, tracing the changing form of the ghost in key twentieth-century French media: film, photography, literature and theory.
This book responds to the current critical interest in phantoms and haunting. It explores and assesses the twentieth centurys fascination with the ghost in relation to notions of identity, authorship and memory, tracing the changing form of the ghost in key twentieth-century French media: film, photography, literature and theory.