Michel Leiris (1901-1990), famed anthropologist, essayist, autobiographer, and art critic, has been regarded for the last fifty years as an authoritative reference for any investigation combining literature and the human sciences. Yet because of his aloof and reserved personality, he has remained on the sidelines of many modern movements and few books ahave been written about him. This issue of Yale French Studies pays tribute to Leiris as a great man of letters in twentieth-century European culture. Marc Blanchard: Editor's Preface: Michel Leiris (1901-1990) in Perspective Lydia Davis: An Excerpt from Fourbis Edouard Glissant: The Repli and the Depli Francis Marmande: Michel Leiris: The Letter to Louise Jean-Christophe Bailly: A River with no Novel Jean-Luc Nancy: Les Iris [Irises] Denis Hollier: Poetry . . . up to Z Leah Hewitt: Between Movements: Leiris in Literary History Michele Richman: Leiris's L'Age d'homme: Politics and the Sacred in Everyday Ethnography Marc Blanchard: "'N stuff . . . ": Practices, Equipment, Protocols in Twentieth-Century Ethnography J.B. Pontalis: Michel Leiris, or Psychoanalysis without End Emmanuel Levinas: Transcending Words: Concerning Word-Erasing Maurice Blanchot: Glances from Beyond the Grave
Michel Leiris (1901-1990), famed anthropologist, essayist, autobiographer, and art critic, has been regarded for the last fifty years as an authoritative reference for any investigation combining literature and the human sciences. Yet because of his aloof and reserved personality, he has remained on the sidelines of many modern movements and
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
This new volume of Yale French Studies both honors and adds to Edwin M. Duval's scholarship on the history and development of French Renaissance literature. Edwin (Ned) M. Duval's scholarship focuses on teasing out hidden structures and symmetries in the poetry and prose of the French Renaissance, a period when
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-10 - Publisher: Yale University Press
This 141st volume of Yale French Studies carefully examines the life and work of Claude Lanzmann (1925-2018) following his 1985 masterpiece, Shoah This volume of Yale French Studies charts the different paths Lanzmann took after the release of Shoah in 1985. These paths are explored through a consideration of his
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Yale University Press
The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity and interdisciplinary investigation In its first issue on photography, this volume of Yale French Studies presents multiple avenues of interdisciplinary investigation designed to intersect and open up new