| Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet Contributor(s): Hughes, Edward J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521642965 ISBN-13: 9780521642965 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 840.935 |
| LCCN: 00063060 |
| Lexile Measure: 1520 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in French |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 222 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the hierarchies of cultural value that inform the work of six modern French writers: the exoticist Pierre Loti; Paul Gauguin, whose Noa Noa enacts European fantasies about Polynesia; Proust, who analyzes such exemplary figures of exclusion and inclusion as the homosexual and the xenophobe; Montherlant; Camus, who pleads an alienating detachment from the cultures of both metropolitan France and Algeria; and Jean Genet. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hughes, Edward J.: - Edward J. Hughes is Reader in modern French literature at Royal Holloway College at the University of London. |