{"product_id":"across-texts-keith-reader-9781781888100","title":"Across Texts: Essays on Different Forms of French Textuality","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired than Renoir; few screen actresses have aroused such strong feelings as Arletty), by way of the ascetically philosophical (whereof it would be difficult to find a more striking example than Simone Weil) to the basely if not gluttonously material (the regional cooking of Lyon). The \u003cem\u003efait divers\u003c\/em\u003e - the Papin sisters' crime - rubs shoulders here with the ideological spat - the \u003cem\u003equerelle\u003c\/em\u003e between Badiou and Marty - in a collection whose unifying theme, paradoxically, may be said to be its eclecticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith Reader was an undergraduate student at Cambridge and was awarded his DPhil at Oxford, for a thesis on Stendhal. He spent three-and-a-half years in France, deepening his knowledge of the country and its culture. There followed a long period in post at Kingston Polytechnic-then-University, where he had the opportunity to develop pioneering courses in theory and cinema. Professorial appointments followed at the universities of Newcastle and Glasgow. Keith Reader is currently Visiting Emeritus Professor at the University of London Institute in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Reader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781888108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781888100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Legenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.53d","brand":"Keith Reader","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800560447743,"sku":"9781781888100","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/across-texts-keith-reader-9781781888100","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}