New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France

by Aidan Higgins and Lynn A. Higgins

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Until now, writings on the celebrated movements in literature and film that emerged in France in the mid-1950s-the New Novel and New Wave-have concentrated on their formal innovations, not on their engagement with history or politics. New Novel,?New Wave, New Politics overturns this traditional approach. Lynn A. Higgins argues that the New Novelists (e.g., Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras) and New Wave filmmakers (e.g., Francois...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0803223773

ISBN13:9780803223776

Release Date:January 1996

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Length:260 Pages

Weight:1.36 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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