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Countering the Culture
This is the first full-length study in any language of the writings of a remarkable figure in French literary and cultural history, author of nine prose fiction works between 1958 and 1988. Despite establishment recognition and a popular mass-market following, Christiane Rochefort has hitherto received surprisingly little critical attention. Her fiction forms an easily approachable learning tool for all students of post-war French politics and culture; the bestseller, Les Petits Enfants du siècle, is a set text in schools and universities in the UK and USA. This novel of growing up in the working class high-rises of Paris, written in the language of the streets, provides a vivid, child-cent...
French Women Writers
Marie de France, Mme. De Sävignä, and Mme. De Lafayette achieved international reputations during periods when women in other European countries were able to write only letters, translations, religious tracts, and miscellaneous fragments. There were obstacles, but French women writers were more or less sustained and empowered by the French culture. Often unconventional in their personal lives and occupied with careers besides writing?as educators, painters, actresses, preachers, salon hostesses, labor organizers?these women did not wait for Simone de Beauvoir to tell them to make existential choices and have "projects in the world." French Women Writers describes the lives and careers of f...
Christiane Rochefort and the Dialogic
Pamela Fries Paine's book offers a fresh appreciation of the personal vision and individual artistry in Christiane Rochefort's novelistic fiction. Dividing Rochefort's work into three groups and focusing on voice as an essential structural element in the writer's work, Paine traces thematic and stylistic development as she analyses the complexity and subtlety in Rochefort's fictional representation of characters, language, attitudes, tensions, and intentions. Christiane Rochefort and the Dialogic examines Rochefort's later narratives as examples of the recent trend toward hybridization of the novelistic genre into what has been labeled «autofiction» and includes a scholarly analysis of texts that until now have remained obscure, misunderstood, and underappreciated.
The Arts in the West Since 1945
The 'Arts' hold a revered and respected place within modern Western society - but what exactly defines 'culture'; what gives it this enigmatic status; what influences its composition and propagation; what controls and limitations is it subject to; and what can it achieve within our world? Arthur Marwick tackles these issues head on, with a both detailed and eclectic account of the 'Arts' in the West since the Second World War. He looks at the full range of possible candidates for the category of 'Art', from both elite and popular cultures: from high literature to pulp fiction, fromart-house cinema to soap-opera, Art Music to Rock and Pop. This book looks at the fascinating diversity of twentieth-century art in the context of the social, technological, and political events, movements, and developments that have shaped our history - such as the holocaust, the television, feminism. Marwick examines how these factors have affected thecultural output of Western society since 1945, and in turn how art has fed back its own agenda and priorities into this society.
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French XX Bibliography
This annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. Unique in its scope, thoroughness, and reliability of information, it has become an essential reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema. Number 59 in the series contains 12,703 entries. William J. Thompson is Associate Professor of French and Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis.
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a startling cultural transformation Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts—automobiles, washing machines, women's magazines, film, popular fiction, even structuralism—as well as in the practices that shape, determine, and delimit their uses. In each of the book's four chapters, a central object of mythical image is refracted across a range of discursive and material spaces...
Shadows and Temptations
In a world where magic whispers beneath the surface, Aria Brightmoore's life shatters on her 16th birthday when her latent powers roar to life, thrusting her into a captivating and dangerous new reality. Aria's awakening magic marks her as a force to be reckoned with, drawing her into the alluring halls of the Aurelian Academy of Magic. Here, she must navigate a mesmerizing realm of ancient sorcery, mythical creatures, and ruthless supernatural politics that will test her burgeoning witch powers to their limits. But mastering her abilities is only half the battle. Aria soon finds herself ensnared in a web of deadly magical intrigues, caught between two wickedly alluring princes: the charming...
