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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      August 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511485794
      9780521495745
      9780521026024
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485794
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.408kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies, Anthropology, Anthropological Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in French (70)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies, Anthropology, Anthropological Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in French (70)
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    This is the first full-length study in English of Michel Leiris's work. Frequently cited as a central figure in contemporary French culture, Leiris was an outstanding writer whose double career as ethnographer and creative writer places him at important points of intersection within French cultural history. Seán Hand explores Leiris's active participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth century: surrealism in the twenties, ethnography in the thirties and existentialism in the forties. Hand locates his writing in these different contexts in relation to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period. He goes on to argue that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography La Règle du jeu stands as the model form of self-enquiry in the twentieth century. More broadly, Hand explores Leiris's continuing obsession with the notion of 'presence'. Informed by recent critical theories, Hand offers a multi disciplinary approach to this intriguing writer.

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    ‘This is the first in-depth study in English of Michel Leiris's work, and it offers a well organised and penetrating analysis of all the aspects of this unusual writer.’

    Source: Modern & Contemporary France

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