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Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

Watt, Adam

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Literary CriticismFrench History

ISBN10: 1839540567
ISBN13: 9781839540561
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Jun 16 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

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.

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