
Labours of Attention
Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture
Adam Watt(Editor)
Legenda (Publisher)
Published on 16. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-83954-056-1 (ISBN)
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Leeds
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Modern Humanities Research Association
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83954-056-1 (9781839540561)
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