{"product_id":"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 Léger and Paul Cézanne) 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Legenda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48569941917937,"sku":"9781839540554","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781839540554_p0.jpg?v=1786836355","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781839540554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}