Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

Author:   Adam Watt
Publisher:   Modern Humanities Research Association
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 June 2025
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Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France's wider colonial project; and on creative labour as both artisanal and artistic, contributors to {i}Labours of Attention{/i} follow paths opened up by the scholarship of Edward J. Hughes. Via critical engagements with the works of Albert Camus and Marcel Proust, as well as with a wider constellation of writers (including Pierre Michon, Jean Genet, Simone de Beauvoir, Blaise Cendrars), artists (including Vincent Van Gogh, Fernand Léger and Paul Cézanne) and film-makers (including Alain Resnais, Yacine Balah and Paolo Sorrentino) this collection of essays explores how these themes and critical preoccupations are captured, problematized and negotiated by twentieth-century literary writing and cultural production in French. Adam Watt is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter.

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Author:   Adam Watt
Publisher:   Modern Humanities Research Association
Imprint:   Legenda
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781839540561


ISBN 10:   1839540567
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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