FREN 105: Directions de la France contemporaine (HC)

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Specially commissioned essays by specialists focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions in this Companion. The book provides information and analysis on such topics as French national identity, architecture, the mass media, food, literature, cinema, intellectual culture and music. It features supplementary material that includes a chronology, illustrations and suggestions for further reading.

With more than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals in the French- and English-speaking world, this new volume presents an extensive guide to twentieth-century French thought. Covers and critiques the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film, literary theory, cognitive and life sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and economics.

More than 700 alphabetically organized entries covering French culture post 1945.