What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought

This volume responds to important questions about the formal properties of literary texts and the agency of form. A central feature of twentieth- and twenty-first century French and Francophone writing has been the exploration of how cultural forms (literary, philosophical and visual) create distinctive semiotic environments and at the same time engage powerfully with external realities. How does form propose a bridge between the environment of the text and the world beyond? What kinds of formal innovations have authors devised in response to the complexity of that world? How do the formal properties of texts inflect our reading of them, and perhaps also our apprehension of the real? In addr.