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Labours of Attention

By Adam Watt

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Labours of Attention

By Adam Watt

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Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France's wider colonial project; and on creative labour as both artisanal and artistic, contributors to {i}Labours of Attention{/i} follow paths opened up by the scholarship of Edward J. Hughes. Via critical engagements with the works of Albert Camus and Marcel Proust, as well as with a wider constellation of writers (including Pierre Michon, Jean Genet, Simone de Beauvoir, Blaise Cendrars), artists (including Vincent Van Gogh, Fernand Léger and Paul Cézanne) and film-makers (including Alain Resnais, Yacine Balah and Paolo Sorrentino) this collection of essays explores how these themes and critical preoccupations are captured, problematized and negotiated by twentieth-century literary writing and cultural production in French.Adam Watt is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2025-06-16
Publication Date:
2025-06-16
Publisher:
Legenda
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1839540567
ISBN13:
9781839540561
Weight:
528 g
Height:
170 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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