{"product_id":"labours-of-attention-adam-watt-9781839540554","title":"Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis substantial volume of essays is published in honour of Edward J. Hughes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France's wider colonial project; and on creative labour as both artisanal and artistic, contributors to \u003cem\u003eLabours of Attention\u003c\/em\u003e follow paths opened up by the scholarship of Edward J. Hughes. Via critical engagements with the works of Albert Camus and Marcel Proust, as well as with a wider constellation of writers (including Pierre Michon, Jean Genet, Simone de Beauvoir, Blaise Cendrars), artists (including Vincent Van Gogh, Fernand L馮er and Paul C騷anne) and film-makers (including Alain Resnais, Yacine Balah and Paolo Sorrentino) this collection of essays explores how these themes and critical preoccupations are captured, problematized and negotiated by twentieth-century literary writing and cultural production in French.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Watt is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Watt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839540559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839540554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Legenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.69d","brand":"Adam Watt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44080172695807,"sku":"9781839540554","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1be71875-d7d8-4dbf-9f76-b6a29a40adab.jpg?v=1685485325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/labours-of-attention-adam-watt-9781839540554","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}