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More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism, performance studies, and the emerging field of food studies explore a wide range of food matters.
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This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.
The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanya...
Depuis vingt ans que sévit la pandémie du sida, vivre avec le virus a fait l'objet de nombreux récits. Cet ouvrage propose, tout d'abord, une synthèse de cette vaste littérature du sida à la lumière des sciences sociales et de la critique littéraire. Une fois ce contexte narratif et discursif passé en revue, il s'agit d'étudier dix témoignages de femmes. Le plus souvent ignorées de la critique, ces «écrivantes», jeunes femmes ordinaires, épouses, mères ou infirmières, séropositives ou accompagnantes de malades, voire les deux à la fois, tirent leur légitimité de leur expérience de première main. Elles révèlent d'autres possibilités (sida non sexuel, par exemple), d...