This is the first full-length study in English of the work of Michel Leiris, a central figure in contemporary French culture. It explores Leiris's participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth-century: surrealism, ethnography and existentialism. Comparing his writing to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period, Hand asserts that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography remains as the model form of twentieth century self-inquiry.
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Michel Leiris: Writing the Self
This is the first full-length study in English of the work of Michel Leiris, a central figure in contemporary French culture. It explores Leiris's participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth-century: surrealism, ethnography and existentialism. Comparing his writing to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period, Hand asserts that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography remains as the model form of twentieth century self-inquiry.
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Michel Leiris: Writing the Self
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521026024 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 04/20/2006 |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in French , #70 |
| Pages: | 276 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.94(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.59(d) |
| Lexile: | 1630L (what's this?) |
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