Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature - From Loti to Genet

In this 2001 book, Hughes explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, and the deviant to define themselves.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Without obligation: exotic appropriation in Loti and Gauguin; 2. Exemplary inclusions, indecent exclusions in Proust's Recherche; 3. Claiming cultural dissidence: the case of Montherlant's La Rose de sable; 4. Camus and the resistance to history; 5. Peripheries, public and private: Genet and dispossession; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Edward J. Hughes is Reader in modern French literature at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.

Summary

In this 2001 book, Hughes explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, the outlawed and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyses the hierarchies of cultural value which inform the work of six modern French writers: Pierre Loti, Paul Gauguin, Proust, Montherlant, Camus and Jean Genet.

Product details

• Authors: Edward J. Hughes
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521642965
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64296-5
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies