{"product_id":"adam-watt-labours-of-attention-9781839540561","title":"Labours of Attention","description":"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.","brand":"Legenda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53711487500630,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781839540561_1.jpg?v=1778873175","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/adam-watt-labours-of-attention-9781839540561","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}