What forms can do : the work of form in 20th- and 21st- century French literature and thought / [edited by] Patrick Crowley and Shirley Jordan.
"This volume responds to important questions about the formal properties of literary texts and the agency of form. A central feature of twentieth- and twenty-first century French and Francophone writing has been the exploration of how cultural forms (literary, philosophical and visual) create d...
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st-century French Literature and Thoughts
- Part 1. Interrogating Form. 'Fixé par les cris des hirondelles au vol géométrique du désir' (Picasso, 7 June 1936): Permutations in Picasso's Writing / Peter Read ; A Gaggle of Geese or Technical Rigour: Re-forming the Novel in 1940s France . Ann Jefferson ; 'Faire ceci ou faire cela?': Barthes and the Choice of Form / Diana Knight ; The Eclipse of Form in Roland Barthes's La Chambre Claire / Johnnie Gratton ; Going on, or Achieving Interruption: Jacques Roubaud's Quelque chose noir / Mairéad Hanrahan
- Part 2. Form and Life Writing. Narratives of Forgetting: Memory and Literary Form / Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir ; The Time of Our Lives: Repetition, Variation and Fragmentation in French Women's Life Writing / Shirley Jordan ; Vertical Travel, Listing and the Enumeration of the Everyday / Charles Forsdick ; Eugène Savitzkaya: Fictional Forms of Remembrance / Patrick Crowley ; A Voice Takes Form: The Sounds of Autobiography in Louis René des Forêts's Poèmes de Samuel Wood / In Maclachlan
- Part 3. Form and Social Experience. Circuits of Reappropriation: Accessing the Real in the Work of Didier Eribon / Edward J. Hughes ; Metaphor, Parody and Madness: Two Readings of Marie Chauvet's Folie / Celia Britton ; Aesthetic Form and Social 'Form' in À la recherche du temps perdu: Proust on Taste / Alison Finch ; 'La recherche que l'on peut dire formelle': Proust with Bourdieu / Michael Lucey
- Part 4. Forms and Formless: World, Movement, Though. How to Think Like a Plant?: Ponge, Jaccottet, Guillevic / Emily McLaughlin ; Certeau's Landscapes: What Can Images Do? / Patrick O'Donovan ; Á la dérive: Drifting in and out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to Bergvall / Eric Robertson ; Convulsive Form: Benjamin, Bataille and the Innervated Body / Patrick ffrench ; Form and Energeia in the Work of Barbara Cassin (For M) / Michael Syrotinski.