The invention of Europe in French literature and film
By: Edward Ousselin.
Publisher: Palgrave/Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: French literature -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- France; Europe -- In literature; Europe -- In motion pictures
Description: Ousselin sets out to show that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that the ongoing movement towards European unity cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped bring it about.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Voltaire's Europe; title: The European spirit of Germaine de Staël; title: Victor Hugo's European utopia; title: The shrunken Europe of Maurice Barr's; title: Europe onscreen: Jean Renoir; title: Institutionalizing the dream: Denis de Rougemont.