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Revisioning French culture, edited by Andrew Sobanet ; with the editorial assistance of Kylie Sago

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Revisioning French culture

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edited by Andrew Sobanet ; with the editorial assistance of Kylie Sago

Studies in modern and contemporary FranceCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

<i></i><i>Revisioning French Culture</i> brings together a remarkable group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and Francophone Studies. Covering the medieval period through the twenty-first century, this volume presents investigations into a vast array of subjects. <i>Revisioning French Culture</i> grapples with topics vital to the contemporary cultural landscape, including universalism, globalization, the idea of Francophonie, and religious and secular identity. This essay collection furthermore transcends and illuminates the contemporary by delving into matters that have long resonated in the humanities and letters, such as death, war, trauma, power and politics, notions of the truth, conceptions of the self, and modes of reading and writing. With contributions by a number of figures known across the humanities and the social sciences, <i>Revisioning French Culture</i> provides cultural, political, and historical context for the crisis facing democracy and liberalism around the world today. These essays were assembled in honor of Lawrence D. Kritzman, whose writing and editorial work in French studies inspired the wide-ranging themes examined here.<i></i>--, Provided by publisher