Format:
xiv, 260 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780198859680
Content:
"This book studies the documentary impulse that plays a central role in twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on nonfiction narratives, it analyzes the use of documents-pieces of textual or visual evidence incorporated into the literary work to relay and interrogate reality. It traces the emergence of an enduring concern with factual reference in texts that engage with current events or the historical archive. Writers idealize the document as a fragment of raw reality, but also reveal its constructed and mediated nature and integrate it as a voice within a larger composition. This ambivalent documentary imagination, present in works by Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano (among others), shapes literature's relationship to visual media, testimonial discourses, and self-representation. Far from turning away from realism in the twentieth century, French literature often turns to the document as a site of both modernist experiment and engagement with the world"--
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe James, Alison Siân, 1976 - The documentary imagination in twentieth-century French literature Oxford : Oxford University Press USA, 2020 ISBN 9780192603494
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe James, Alison Siân, 1976 - The documentary imagination in twentieth-century French literature Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780191892059
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Französisch
;
Literatur
;
Dokument
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
