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Remembering Paris in Text and Film (Paperback, New edition)
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Remembering Paris in Text and Film (Paperback, New edition)
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This new book explores aspects of Paris from the time of Baudelaire
within the context of nostalgia and modernity. It seeks to see
Paris, through written texts and movies, from the outside, and as
both concrete reality and a collection of myths associated with it.
This collection of essays contains original research on the
intersections of several disciplinary approaches to Paris and
modernity. It is designed to make these complex concepts speak to
an academic audience, but also to an undergraduate readership. It
will therefore create intersections and problematize what are
otherwise considered the remit of single disciplines. The book
springs from two interdisciplinary courses on Paris and modernity -
Paris at Dawn, which looks at modernity in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, and Paris at Midnight, which looks at
left-bank culture following the Second World War - coordinated by
Associate Professor Alistair Rolls (French studies) and Professor
Marguerite Johnson (classics and classical reception) at the
University of Newcastle, Australia. While it is driven by original
research, notably by examining the intersections of any number of
disciplinary lenses and positions on Paris and modernity, it is
also designed to make these complex concepts understandable for a
wider readership, including undergraduates. It will therefore
create intersections and problematize what are otherwise considered
the remit of single disciplines (with their monoliths and
taxonomies); at the same time, it will also provide clarity and,
importantly, make logical links between, for example, the past and
present, myth and reality, poetry and history, and various schools
and movements, including psychology, poetics, poststructuralism and
critical theory, classical reception, feminism and existentialism.
All contributors are academics working in the School of Humanities
and Social Science, who have contributed to the development and
delivery of these twinned courses. Remembering Paris investigates
Paris as an urban and poetic site of remembrance. For Charles
Baudelaire, the streets of Paris conjured visions of the past even
as he contemplated the present. This book investigates this and
other cases of double vision, tracing back from Baudelaire into
antiquity, but also following Baudelaire forwards as his poetry is
translated, received and referenced in texts and films in the
twentieth century and beyond. Primary readership will be academics,
educators, scholars and students - both undergraduate and
postgraduate. The chapter structure and the relatively classic
choice of authors and filmmakers is well suited to course use. Many
universities are now turning to interdisciplinary courses, which
combine historical, cultural, literary and artistic approaches to
thematic studies. This book, therefore, will also be of interest to
academics teaching courses on French language, literature and
culture; literary studies; film studies; cultural studies; women
studies, gender studies; LGBTQ+ studies; even human geography.
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