The essays in this volume investigate origins and identities of individuals and groups in French literature from the seventeenth century to the present, as well

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Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we un

French novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens ac

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