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Threat : essays in French literature, thought and visual culture

Evans, Georgina(Edited by)Kay, Adam(Edited by)
Part of the Modern French identities series
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This collection of essays arises from the 2005 Cambridge French Graduate Conference on the theme of threat.

From the baleful and ubiquitous eyes of surveillance cameras to the ever-present possibility of total nuclear annihilation, threat is everywhere around us.

Yet the phenomenon itself, if indeed it is a single phenomenon, has received little attention.

This volume seeks to remedy this oversight with a collection of concise, hard-hitting essays on a variety of topics in French culture. Organized around central approaches to the problem of threat - (inter)cultural, philosophical, and approaches through the visual arts - the book examines anxiety, privacy, loss, invasion, and other issues related to the theme.

Though emphasis is placed on the contemporary period, writers of the French Renaissance also receive due attention.

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Verlag Peter Lang
3039113577 / 9783039113576
Paperback / softback
15/04/2010
Switzerland
English
248 p.
23 cm
Professional & Vocational Learn More
Selected conference papers.