Invention of Europe in French Literature and Film

Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor EDWARD OUSELLIN is Associate Professor of French at Western Washington University, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

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'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

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• Authors: E Ousselin, E. Ousselin, Edward Ousselin
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2009
• EAN: 9780230605534
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60553-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Literaturtheorie, Europa, B, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature, Film History, auseinandersetzen, 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