Remembering Paris in Text and Film

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Remembering Paris in Text and Film explores the city of Paris as both a tangible urban space and a poetic site of memory. Through essays on film, poetry, and prose from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it reveals how Paris embodies the interplay between nostalgia and modernity, blending historical reality with enduring myths.
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This volume will appeal to readers interested in arts and culture, particularly those fascinated by urban studies, literary and film analysis, and the cultural history of Paris.

For Baudelaire, Paris streets conjured visions of the past even as he contemplated the present. This book investigates this and other cases of double vision, tracing back into antiquity and following Baudelaire forwards as his poetry is translated, received and referenced through text and film to the twentieth century and beyond. 8 b/w illus.

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An investigation of Paris as an urban space and a poetic site of remembrance.

Experiencing urban space conjures visions of the past alongside contemplation of the present. This edited volume investigates this feeling of seeing double by investigating Paris—a city that has come to embody the tension of this sensation—through a dual lens of nostalgia and modernity.

Contributors survey Paris in film, poetry, and prose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, presenting the city as both a concrete reality and as a collection of the myths associated with it. Interdisciplinary and deeply researched, the essays distill complex concepts of the urban, the textual, and the modern for a wide readership.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789387605

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Edition: New edition

Illustration: 8 Halftones, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Alistair Rolls
Edited by Marguerite Johnson

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 381g

Pages: 234

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Alistair Rolls is associate professor of French studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research is in the fields of twentieth-century French and English literature, with an especial focus on crime fiction.

Marguerite Johnson is professor of classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her areas of expertise include classical reception, including the influence of Sappho in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris.