The Documentary Imagination In Twentieth Century French Literature
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Author |
: Alison James |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2020-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192603487 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192603485 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature by : Alison James
The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first. Focusing on the period bookended by these two moments, it highlights the enduring concern with factual reference in texts that engage either with current events or the historical archive. Specifically, it considers a set of ideas and practices centered on the conceptualization and use of documents. In doing so, it contests the widespread narrative that twentieth-century French literature abandons the realist enterprise, and argues that writers instead renegotiate the realist legacy outside, or at the margins of, the fictional space of the novel. Analyzing works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, the book defines a specific documentary mode of literary representation that records, assembles, and investigates material traces of reality. The document is a textual, visual, or material piece of evidence repurposed through its visual insertion, textual transcription, or description within a literary work. It is a fact, but it also becomes a figure, standing for literature's confrontation with the real. The documentary imagination involves a fantasy of direct access to a reality that speaks for itself. At the same time, it gives rise to concrete textual practices that open up new directions for literature, by interrogating the construction and interpretation of facts.
Author |
: Alison James |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2020-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198859680 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198859686 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature by : Alison James
Studying works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, this volume re-thinks twentieth-century French literature and engages with the question of distinctions between the factual and the fictional.
Author |
: Clarice Allen Kralovec |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:52006251 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hidden God in French Literature and Cinema by : Clarice Allen Kralovec
Author |
: William Barrett |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0060905794 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780060905798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time of Need by : William Barrett
Author |
: Samuel James Ferguson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:885436053 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-century French Writing by : Samuel James Ferguson
Author |
: Gale Research Company |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015068933285 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twentieth-century Literary Criticism by : Gale Research Company
Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.
Author |
: Colin Davis |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2017-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786948243 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786948249 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Traces of War by : Colin Davis
Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.
Author |
: Sam Ferguson |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:903125945 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-century French Writing by : Sam Ferguson
Author |
: Kazuo Ishiguro |
Publisher |
: Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 2017-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525654964 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525654968 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs by : Kazuo Ishiguro
The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career—“small scruffy moments . . . quiet, private sparks of revelation”—that made him the writer he is today. With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean—what it will demand of us—to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential. An enduring work on writing and becoming a writer, by one of the most accomplished novelists of our generation.
Author |
: George Saintsbury |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 626 |
Release |
: 1884 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101017994235 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Short History of French Literature by : George Saintsbury