| Michel Leiris: Writing the Self Contributor(s): Hand, Seán (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521495741 ISBN-13: 9780521495745 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $124.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 848.912 |
| LCCN: 2002070888 |
| Lexile Measure: 1630 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in French |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first full-length study in English of the work of Michel Leiris, a central figure in contemporary French culture. It explores Leiris's participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth-century: surrealism, ethnography and existentialism. Comparing his writing to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period, Hand asserts that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography remains as the model form of twentieth century self-inquiry. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hand, Sean: - Sean Hand is Professor of French and Head of the School of Languages at Oxford Brookes University. He has published on Derrida, psychoanalysis, and contemporary French writing. |