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Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture and Politics Today (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP)
Lia Brozgal (Ed.)
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Description for Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture and Politics Today (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP)
Hardcover. A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field. Editor(s): Brozgal, Lia Nicole; Kippur, Sara. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Being Contemporary is a volume of original essays by 23 preeminent scholars of French and Comparative literature, hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, in response to the editors’ invitation to “think through the contemporary.” The volume offers a sustained critical reflection on the contemporary as a concept, a category, a condition, and a set of relationships to others and to one’s own time. Being Contemporary emerges from a sense of a critical urgency to probe the notion of “the contemporary,” and the place of the contemporary critic, in French literary and cultural studies today. Its point of departure is ... Read more
Being Contemporary is a volume of original essays by 23 preeminent scholars of French and Comparative literature, hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, in response to the editors’ invitation to “think through the contemporary.” The volume offers a sustained critical reflection on the contemporary as a concept, a category, a condition, and a set of relationships to others and to one’s own time. Being Contemporary emerges from a sense of a critical urgency to probe the notion of “the contemporary,” and the place of the contemporary critic, in French literary and cultural studies today. Its point of departure is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Condition
New
Weight
786g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781382639
SKU
V9781781382639
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About Lia Brozgal (Ed.)
Lia Brozgal is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Sara Kippur is Assistant Professor of French at Trinity College, Connecticut.
Reviews for Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture and Politics Today (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP)
'Lia Brozgal and Sara Kippur’s edited volume is impressive in its scope and in the intellectual level of its essays...providing useful theoretical concepts and models of thought that other scholars can productively apply to their own areas and objects of study.' David Petterson, H-France Review 'This volume is, therefore, a foundational consideration of the academic’s position in time ... Read more