Egalitarian strangeness : on class disturbance and levelling in modern and contemporary French narrative / Edward J. Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1953- author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 75.

Liverpool scholarship online.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 75

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--France--History--20th century.

Social classes.

Social classes--France--History--21st century.

Social change--France--History--20th century.

Social change.

Social change--France--History--21st century.

Social classes in literature.

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The formulation 'egalitarian strangeness' is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple (Short Voyages to the Land of the People) (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary French thinker Jacques Ranciere. Perhaps best known for his theory of radical equality as set out in Le Matre ignorant (The Ignorant Schoolmaster) (1987), Ranciere reflects on ways in which a hierarchical social order based on inequality can come to be unsettled. In the democracy of literature, for example, he argues that words and sentences serve to capture any life and to make it available to any reader. This book explores embedded forms of social and cultural 'apportionment' in a range of modern and contemporary French texts (including prose fiction, socially engaged commentary, and autobiography), while also identifying scenes of class disturbance and egalitarian encounter.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80085-235-5

1-80034-548-8

OCLC:

1247661379