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Pour Le Sport: Physical Culture in French and Francophone Literature

Pour Le Sport: Physical Culture in French and Francophone Literature

Curto, Roxanna
Wines, Rebecca

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 180085689X
ISBN13: 9781800856899
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jan 1 2022
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This edited volume gathers together studies examining various aspects of physical culture in literature written in French from Europe and around the Francophone world. We define physical culture as the systematic care for and development of the physique, and interpret it to include not only sport in the modern sense, but also all the athletic activities that preceded it or relate to it, such as bodily forms of exercise, leisure, and artistic creation. Our essays pursue diverse interpretive approaches and focus on texts from a wide variety of periods (medieval to the present) and genres (short stories, novels, essays, poetry) in order to consider the fundamental--yet highly neglected--place of physical activities in literature and culture from the French-speaking world.

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