Making connections : essays in French culture and society in honour of Philip Thody
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Making connections : essays in French culture and society in honour of Philip Thody
Peter Lang, c1999
- US
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This volume, written in honour of Philip Thody, Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds, reflects his wide-ranging contribution to the field of French studies. It brings together essays by leading scholars exploring a variety of interrelated literary, philosophical and political issues, which should interest students of French culture. While some chapters offer comparative studies of French and English writers, others analyze the links between major figures of French literature and thought, or those between the cultural, social and political worlds where the 20th century French intellectual plays such an important role in the development of ideas. The volume contains studies of the novel, poetry, drama, thought and cinema and covers a range of subjects including civil law in the 17th century, the 18th-century campaign for the abolition of the slave trade, attitudes to occupation and liberation, ideological debate after World War II and the problems of life in the modern city and the banlieue.
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