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1870-1914
avant-garde
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cinema
Crepusculari
decadence
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European history
false starts
film studies
fin de siecle
France
French culture
history
history of art
media history
media studies
modern history
multiple beginnings
painting
poetry
prose
Rhymers' Club
Symbolism
theatre studies
translations
women's writing

Product details

  • ISBN 9780859896467
  • Dimensions: 165 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 2000
  • Publisher: University of Exeter
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870–1914. Part One centres on France, and assembles essays on the prose, poetry and painting of Symbolism and Decadence, on avant-garde dance and performance, on women's writing and on early cinema.

Part Two explores the relations between France and several cultures in which the debt to France was amply and originally repaid, ranging from the Anglo-Celtic "Rhymers' Club" to the Italian "Crepusculari". The essays consistently point beyond the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, as they explore the multiple beginnings–as well as the false starts–that characterize the period. All foreign language quotations are translated.
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Patrick McGuinness is Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford.