The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature: Writing with Facts

by Alison James

The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first. Focusing on the period bookended by these two moments, it highlights the enduring concern with factual reference in texts that engage either with current events or the historical archive. Specifically, it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198859686
• ISBN13: 9780198859680
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"