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Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing

Ferguson Sam
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198814535
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
264

Forfatter
Ferguson Sam

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Sam Ferguson graduated from New College, Oxford, in French and Classics in 2008. In 2014 he completed a doctorate, also at New College, focusing on the history of the diary in French writing. During his doctorate he spent a year teaching as a lecteur at the Université Paris Nanterre. He is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and his research touches on various aspects of life-writing, and the works of André Gide and Roland Barthes. He also teaches on a range of French language and literature courses at Oxford University.

Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing

Ferguson Sam
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk
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In Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing, Sam Ferguson opts for an altogether different approach.

Arnaud Schmitt, University of Bordeaux, European Journal of Life Writing

Ferguson's book offers a valuable study for diary-writing scholars, which explores fascinating issues also relevant to life-writing in general...meticulous research, insightful analysis and overall quality of a volume which is a welcome contribution to French diary-writing studies.

Sylvie Lannegrand, NUI Galway, H-France

Ferguson succeeds brilliantly in the task of studying diary writing as a complex and plural practice, both rooted in a dynamic of transmission and influence in the literary field, and open to possibilities of transgression and renewal. Through a judicious use of bibliographical sources and a particularly attentive reading of the texts, especially in their margins, variations, and internal contradictions, Ferguson illuminates in a remarkable way the richness of the diary as a literary text, an object of research, and a point of articulation of various theoretical and practical questions.

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Ferguson's book offers a valuable study for diary-writing scholars, which explores fascinating issues also relevant to life-writing in general. ...[the] meticulous research, insightful analysis and overall quality of a volume ... is a welcome contribution to French diary-writing studies.

Sylvie Lannegrand, H-France Review

This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works. From the 1880s it became apparent to writers in France that their diaries—a supposedly private form of writing —would probably come to be published, strongly affecting the way their readers viewed their other published works, and their very persona as an author. More than any other, André Gide embraced the literary potential of the diary: the first part of this book follows his experimentation with the diary in the fictional works Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891) and Paludes (1895), in his diary of the composition of his great novel, Le Journal des faux-monnayeurs (1926), and in his monumental Journal 1889-1939 (1939). The second part follows developments in diary-writing after the Second World War, inflected by radical changes in attitudes towards the writing subject. Raymond Queneau's works published under the pseudonym of Sally Mara (1947-1962) used the diary playfully at a time when the writing subject was condemned by the literary avant-garde. Roland Barthes's experiments with the diary (1977-1979) took it to the extremes of its formal possibilities, at the point of a return of the writing subject. Annie Ernaux's published diaries (1993-2011) demonstrate the role of the diary in the modern field of life-writing. Throughout the century, the diary has repeatedly been used to construct an oeuvre and author, but also to call these fundamental literary concepts into question.
Les mer
An authoritative and original volume on the history of the diary in French writing in the twentieth century with a series of chapter-length studies on works by André Gide, Raymond Queneau, Roland Barthes, and Annie Ernaux.
Les mer
Introduction Part I: André Gide's diary-writing 1: Les Cahiers d'André Walter 2: Paludes 3: Le Journal des Faux-monnayeurs 4: The Journal 1889-1939 Part II: Diary-writing after Gide 5: Raymond Queneau's OEuvres complètes de Sally Mara 6: The Return of the diary in Barthes's 'Vita Nova' 7: Annie Ernaux: The place of the diary in modern life-writing Conclusion
Les mer
The first historical account of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century Crossover with related issues of life-writing, autobiography, and autofiction Studies works by André Gide, Raymond Queneau, Roland Barthes, and Annie Ernaux Citations given in French and English translation
Les mer
Sam Ferguson graduated from New College, Oxford, in French and Classics in 2008. In 2014 he completed a doctorate, also at New College, focusing on the history of the diary in French writing. During his doctorate he spent a year teaching as a lecteur at the Université Paris Nanterre. He is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and his research touches on various aspects of life-writing, and the works of André Gide and Roland Barthes. He also teaches on a range of French language and literature courses at Oxford University.
Les mer
The first historical account of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century Crossover with related issues of life-writing, autobiography, and autofiction Studies works by André Gide, Raymond Queneau, Roland Barthes, and Annie Ernaux Citations given in French and English translation
Les mer

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In Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing, Sam Ferguson opts for an altogether different approach.

Arnaud Schmitt, University of Bordeaux, European Journal of Life Writing

Ferguson's book offers a valuable study for diary-writing scholars, which explores fascinating issues also relevant to life-writing in general...meticulous research, insightful analysis and overall quality of a volume which is a welcome contribution to French diary-writing studies.

Sylvie Lannegrand, NUI Galway, H-France

Ferguson succeeds brilliantly in the task of studying diary writing as a complex and plural practice, both rooted in a dynamic of transmission and influence in the literary field, and open to possibilities of transgression and renewal. Through a judicious use of bibliographical sources and a particularly attentive reading of the texts, especially in their margins, variations, and internal contradictions, Ferguson illuminates in a remarkable way the richness of the diary as a literary text, an object of research, and a point of articulation of various theoretical and practical questions.

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Se alle

Ferguson's book offers a valuable study for diary-writing scholars, which explores fascinating issues also relevant to life-writing in general. ...[the] meticulous research, insightful analysis and overall quality of a volume ... is a welcome contribution to French diary-writing studies.

Sylvie Lannegrand, H-France Review

This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works. From the 1880s it became apparent to writers in France that their diaries—a supposedly private form of writing —would probably come to be published, strongly affecting the way their readers viewed their other published works, and their very persona as an author. More than any other, André Gide embraced the literary potential of the diary: the first part of this book follows his experimentation with the diary in the fictional works Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891) and Paludes (1895), in his diary of the composition of his great novel, Le Journal des faux-monnayeurs (1926), and in his monumental Journal 1889-1939 (1939). The second part follows developments in diary-writing after the Second World War, inflected by radical changes in attitudes towards the writing subject. Raymond Queneau's works published under the pseudonym of Sally Mara (1947-1962) used the diary playfully at a time when the writing subject was condemned by the literary avant-garde. Roland Barthes's experiments with the diary (1977-1979) took it to the extremes of its formal possibilities, at the point of a return of the writing subject. Annie Ernaux's published diaries (1993-2011) demonstrate the role of the diary in the modern field of life-writing. Throughout the century, the diary has repeatedly been used to construct an oeuvre and author, but also to call these fundamental literary concepts into question.
Les mer
An authoritative and original volume on the history of the diary in French writing in the twentieth century with a series of chapter-length studies on works by André Gide, Raymond Queneau, Roland Barthes, and Annie Ernaux.
Les mer
Introduction Part I: André Gide's diary-writing 1: Les Cahiers d'André Walter 2: Paludes 3: Le Journal des Faux-monnayeurs 4: The Journal 1889-1939 Part II: Diary-writing after Gide 5: Raymond Queneau's OEuvres complètes de Sally Mara 6: The Return of the diary in Barthes's 'Vita Nova' 7: Annie Ernaux: The place of the diary in modern life-writing Conclusion
Les mer
The first historical account of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century Crossover with related issues of life-writing, autobiography, and autofiction Studies works by André Gide, Raymond Queneau, Roland Barthes, and Annie Ernaux Citations given in French and English translation
Les mer
Sam Ferguson graduated from New College, Oxford, in French and Classics in 2008. In 2014 he completed a doctorate, also at New College, focusing on the history of the diary in French writing. During his doctorate he spent a year teaching as a lecteur at the Université Paris Nanterre. He is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and his research touches on various aspects of life-writing, and the works of André Gide and Roland Barthes. He also teaches on a range of French language and literature courses at Oxford University.
Les mer
The first historical account of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century Crossover with related issues of life-writing, autobiography, and autofiction Studies works by André Gide, Raymond Queneau, Roland Barthes, and Annie Ernaux Citations given in French and English translation
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198814535
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
264

Forfatter
Ferguson Sam

Om bidragsyterne

Sam Ferguson graduated from New College, Oxford, in French and Classics in 2008. In 2014 he completed a doctorate, also at New College, focusing on the history of the diary in French writing. During his doctorate he spent a year teaching as a lecteur at the Université Paris Nanterre. He is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and his research touches on various aspects of life-writing, and the works of André Gide and Roland Barthes. He also teaches on a range of French language and literature courses at Oxford University.

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