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Authentic Fictions: Cosmopolitan Writing of the Troisième République, 1908-1940
Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Other), Genrich, Tom (Author)

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 ISBN: 3039102850     ISBN-13: 9783039102853
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
OUR PRICE: $96.23  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2005
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - French
- History | Europe - France
Dewey: 840.900
LCCN: 2005044265
Series: Modern French Identities
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.87 lbs) 294 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
This comparative study examines the prose writings of the best-known cosmopolitan authors of the Third French Republic: the modernists Jean Giraudoux, Valery Larbaud and Paul Morand, and the best-selling popular writer Maurice Dekobra. It investigates what constituted the 'cosmopolitanism' that they publicly proclaimed between the World Wars, a classification which has been widely accepted by commentators ever since. In particular, it considers whether conventional definitions of cosmopolitanism - as an unproblematic attitude of xenophilia coupled with wanderlust, or as an ecumenical humanism - can co-exist with the blind spots and prejudices of its practitioners. This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the writers' identity politics based on their approach to Otherness (gender, race, nationality, political affiliation) as well as to formal innovation. It argues that cosmopolitanism is the organizing principle for their literary and existential attempts at cultivating authentic Selfhood. Through its socio-political embeddedness, this cosmopolitanism reveals the ideological and cultural preoccupations of the day.
 
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