What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought

Author:   Patrick Crowley (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University College, Cork (Ireland)) ,  Shirley Jordan (School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University (United Kingdom))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   69
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9781802077407


Pages:   342
Publication Date:   01 September 2022
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Author:   Patrick Crowley (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University College, Cork (Ireland)) ,  Shirley Jordan (School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University (United Kingdom))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   69
ISBN:  

9781802077407


ISBN 10:   1802077405
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   01 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents Introduction: What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought. Part 1: Interrogating Form Chapter 1: Peter Read, ‘Fixé par les cris des hirondelles au vol géométrique du désir’ (Picasso, 7th June 1936): Patterns and Permutations in Picasso’s Writing. Chapter 2: Ann Jefferson, A Gaggle of Geese or Technical Rigour: Re-forming the Novel in 1940s France Chapter 3: Diana Knight, ‘Faire ceci ou faire cela?’: Barthes and the Choice of Form Chapter 4: Johnnie Gratton, The Eclipse of Form in Roland Barthes’ La Chambre Claire Chapter 5: Mairéad Hanrahan, Going on, or Achieving Interruption: Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noir Part 2: Form and Life Writing Chapter 6: Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Narratives of Forgetting: Memory and Literary Form Chapter 7: Shirley Jordan, The Time of our Lives: Repetition, Variation and Fragmentation in French Women’s Life Writing Chapter 8: Charles Forsdick, Vertical Travel, Listing and the Enumeration of the Everyday Chapter 9: Patrick Crowley, Eugène Savitzkaya: Fictional Forms of Remembrance Chapter 10: Ian Maclaclan, A Voice Takes Form: The Sounds of Autobiography in Louis-René des Forêts’s Poèmes de Samuel Wood Part 3: Form and Social Experience Chapter 11: Eddie Hughes, Circuits of Re-appropriation: Accessing the Real in the Work of Didier Eribon Chapter 12: Celia Britton, Metaphor, Parody and Madness: Two Readings of Marie Chauvet’s Folie Chapter 13: Alison Finch, Aesthetic Form and Social ‘Form’ in À la recherche du temps perdu: Proust on Taste Chapter 14: Michael Lucey, ‘La recherche que l’on peut dire formelle’: Proust with Bourdieu Part 4: Forms and Formless: World, Movement, Thought Chapter 15: Emily McLaughlin, How To Think Like a Plant? Ponge, Jaccottet, Guillevic Chapter 16: Patrick O’Donovan, Certeau’s Landscapes: What can Images do? Chapter 17: Eric Robertson, À la dérive: Drifting in and out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to Bergvall Chapter 18: Patrick ffrench, Convulsive Form: Benjamin, Bataille and the Innervated Body Chapter 19: Michael Syrotinski, Form and energeia in the Work of Barbara Cassin (For M)

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Reviews 'This volume is of a very high calibre. It offers a broad cross-section of readings in French and Francophone Studies, bringing together a vibrant range of texts through a collective endeavor to rethink the concept and practice of literary form.' Anna-Louise Milne, The University of London Institute in Paris


Reviews 'This volume is of a very high calibre. It offers a broad cross-section of readings in French and Francophone Studies, bringing together a vibrant range of texts through a collective endeavor to rethink the concept and practice of literary form.' Anna-Louise Milne, The University of London Institute in Paris


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Patrick Crowley is Senior Lecturer in French at University College Cork. Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle and Co-Director of the Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) in the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

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