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  • Simone de Beauvoir

    by Ursula Tidd ...
    Series Book 21 - Critical Lives
    ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,’ wrote Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) in her controversial bestseller The Second Sex (1949), widely acclaimed as the founding book of modern feminism. Beauvoir lived through some of the most dramatic and harrowing events of the twentieth century, a time of huge change for women across the world. Ursula Tidd illuminates these and many other facets of ... Read more

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  • Simone de Beauvoir

    by Ursula Tidd ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking work has transformed the way we think about gender and identity. Without her 1949 text The Second Sex, gender theory as we know it today would be unthinkable. A leading figure in French existentialism, Beauvoir's concepts of 'becoming woman' and of woman as 'Other' are among the most influential ideas in feminist enquiry and debate.This book guides the reader ... Read more

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  • Jorge Semprun

    Writing the European Other

    by Ursula Tidd ...
    "The Spanish Communist exile and Francophone Holocaust writer Jorge Semprun (1923-) is a major contributor to contemporary debates on the politics and ethics of remembering the Franco era, Communism and the Holocaust in French, Spanish and broader European contexts. His sophisticated literary testimonies have become landmark texts not least for their commitment to represent the lived experience of ... Read more

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  • Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema

    A Beauvoirian Perspective

    Simone de Beauvoir’s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered ‘othering’ gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir’s writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France

    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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  • Marguerite Duras

    Apocalyptic Desires

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    Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The LoverLeslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Camus

    Edited by Edward J. Hughes ...
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    Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd' in the 1940s, he shot to prominence in France and beyond. His work nevertheless attracted hostility as well as acclaim ... Read more

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  • After the Deluge

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  • Cinema and Art as Archive

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