Author: Alison James
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192603485
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature
Author: Alison James
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192603485
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192603485
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature
Author: Alison James
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198859686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198859686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
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.
Twentieth Century French Writers
Author: Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Publisher: London [etc.] : W. Collins sons & Company Limited
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher: London [etc.] : W. Collins sons & Company Limited
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
French Literature and Its Background
Author: John Cruickshank
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Documentary Impulse in French Literature
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004484558
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004484558
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Twentieth Century French Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Twentieth Century French Writers
Author: Mary Duclaux
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104565367
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104565367
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Twentieth Century French Writers
Author: Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The History of French Literature on Film
Author: Kate Griffiths
Publisher: History of World Literatures on Film
ISBN: 1501372408
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of French literature analyses the reworking of a key body of writing from the silent era to the present"--
Publisher: History of World Literatures on Film
ISBN: 1501372408
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of French literature analyses the reworking of a key body of writing from the silent era to the present"--
France in the Twentieth Century (1908)
Author: Walter Lionel George
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104750787
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781104750787
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.