Across Texts: Essays on Different Forms of French Textuality

by Keith Reader

The essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired than Renoir; few screen actresses have aroused such strong feelings as Arletty), by way of the ascetically philosophical (whereof it would be difficult to find a more striking example than Simone Weil) to the basely if not gluttonously material...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178188806X
• ISBN13: 9781781888063
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"