Absent Without Leave: French Literature Under the Threat of War

Title: Absent Without Leave: French Literature Under the Threat of War Author: Hollier, Denis ISBN: 9780674212718 Publisher: Harvard University Press Published: 1997 Binding: Quality Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Literary Criticism 1376063 Publisher Description: They were not the "Banquet Years, " those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature - the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur - and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968. This literary history, the prehistory of postmodernism, is what D