The Sunday of Fiction - The Modern French Eccentric

In a world of increasing conformity, the modern eccentric can be seen as a contemporary hero and guardian of individualism. This study defines the modern eccentric in 20th-century French literature and compares the notions of the eccentric by tracing its relation to time, space and society.

About the author

Peter Schulman is an assistant professor of French at Old Dominion University. He is the co-author of Le Dernier livre du siecle with Mischa Zabotin, a series of interviews on the notion of fin de siecle with over seventy prominent French personalities. He has written seventeen articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and is currently co-editing a book of essays titled Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War as well as The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality, and Consumer Culture.

Summary

In a world of increasing conformity, the modern eccentric can be seen as a contemporary hero and guardian of individualism. This study defines the modern eccentric in 20th-century French literature and compares the notions of the eccentric by tracing its relation to time, space and society.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Schulman
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2002
• EAN: 9781557532510
• ISBN: 978-1-55753-251-0
• No. of pages: 196
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Lite; Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures; Purdue Studies in Romance Lite; Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures 25
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies