The Invention of Europe in French Literature and Film

Ousselin sets out to show that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that the ongoing movement towards European unity cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped bring it about.

List of contents

Voltaire's Europe The European Spirit of Germaine de Stael Victor Hugo's European Utopia The Shrunken Europe of Maurice Barres Europe Onscreen: Jean Renoir Institutionalizing the Dream: Denis de Rougemont

About the author

EDWARD OUSELLIN is Associate Professor of French at Western Washington University, USA.

Summary

Ousselin sets out to show that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that the ongoing movement towards European unity cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped bring it about.

Additional text

'While avoiding undue simplification, [Edward Ousselin] has thus written a book that is admirably accessible to the general reader...No faint praise is intended in saying that Ousselin's study is essentially an (intelligent and incisive) introduction to the subject.' - French Studies

Report

'While avoiding undue simplification, [Edward Ousselin] has thus written a book that is admirably accessible to the general reader...No faint praise is intended in saying that Ousselin's study is essentially an (intelligent and incisive) introduction to the subject.' - French Studies

Product details

• Authors: E Ousselin, E. Ousselin
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349373086
• ISBN: 978-1-349-37308-6
• No. of pages: 189
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 10 mm x 203 mm
• Weight: 221 g
• Illustrations: IX, 189 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Literaturtheorie, Europa, B, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature, Film History, Literature: history & criticism, Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft, Literary theory, Literature, general, European Literature, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Literature—Philosophy, Film and TV History, Motion pictures—History, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection