Authentic Fictions: Cosmopolitan Writing of the Troisieme Republique, 1908-1940

Description: Authentic Fictions by Tom Genrich 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography The Author: Tom Genrich was educated in Essen, Oslo and at the Universities of Angers and London, before obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Table of Contents Contents: Exploration of the Other along gender, national, political, and racial lines - (Proto-existentialist) search for authentic existence within the geopolitical and socio-cultural upheavals of the Troisi Details ISBN3039102850 Author Tom Genrich Pages 285 Publisher Verlag Peter Lang Series Modern French Identities Year 2005 ISBN-10 3039102850 ISBN-13 9783039102853 Imprint Verlag Peter Lang Subtitle Cosmopolitan Writing of the Troisieme Republique, 1908-1940 Place of Publication Pieterlen Country of Publication Switzerland Edited by Peter Collier DEWEY 840.900912 Birth 1972 Format Paperback Short Title AUTHENTIC FICTIONS Language English Media Book Series Number 27 Publication Date 2005-05-10 DOI 10.1604/9783039102853 UK Release Date 2005-05-10 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139374308;

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