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Informationen zum Autor Johnnie Gratton is the holder of the 1776 Chair of French at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Expressivism: The Vicissitudes of a Theory in the Writing of Proust and Barthes (Legenda, 2000), and has written widely on modern French fiction and autobiography. Klappentext The idea of the 'project' crosses generic, disciplinary and cultural frontiers. At a time when writers and artists are increasingly describing their practices as 'projects', remarkably little critical attention has been paid to the actual idea of the 'project'. This collection of essays responds to an urgent need by suggesting a framework for evaluating the notion of the project in the light of various modernist and postmodernist cultural practices, drawn mainly but not exclusively from the French-speaking domain. The overview offered by this volume promises to makes an original and thought-provoking contribution to contemporary literary, artistic and cultural criticism. Zusammenfassung The idea of the 'project' crosses generic! disciplinary and cultural frontiers. At a time when writers and artists are increasingly describing their practices as 'projects'! remarkably little critical attention has been paid to the actual idea of the 'project'. This collection of essays responds to an urgent need by suggesting a framework for evaluating the notion of the project in the light of various modernist and postmodernist cultural practices! drawn mainly but not exclusively from the French-speaking domain. The overview offered by this volume promises to makes an original and thought-provoking contribution to contemporary literary! artistic and cultural criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction: Tracking the Art of the Project: History, Theory, Practice Johnnie Gratton and Michael Sheringham Chapter 1. Man Ray's Endgame and Other Modernist Gambits Wendy Grossman Chapter 2. Projected Journeys: Exploring the Limits of Travel Charles Forsdick Chapter 3. What does Reality Television Threaten? Ingrid Wassenaar Chapter 4. Programming and Play: Life Drive and Death Drive in the Work of Georges Perec, Roman Opalka and Jean-Benoît Puech Dominique Rabaté Chapter 5. Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse : Salvage and the Art of Forgetting Emma Wilson Chapter 6. Games with the Gaze: Sophie Calle's Postmodern Phototextuality Kate Ince Chapter 7. On the Subject of the Project Johnnie Gratton Chapter 8. The Art of the Grand projet : Malraux's Imaginary Museum and its Contemporary Legacy Douglas Smith Chapter 9. Experimenting with Identity: People, Place and Urban Change in Contemporary French Photography Edward Welch Chapter 10. Programmes and Projects in the Contemporary Literary Field Dominique Viart Chapter 11. The Project and the Everyday: François Bon's Experiments in Attention Michael Sheringham Chapter 12. Michel Foucault: Life as a Work of Art Patrick Ffrench Notes on Contributors Index ...
