The Cambridge companion to Camus

The Cambridge companion to Camus / edited by Edward J. Hughes.

Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd'...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hughes, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1953- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Camus, Albert, > 1913-1960 > Criticism and interpretation.
Camus, Albert, > 1913-1960 > Philosophy.
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Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Edward J. Hughes
  • Biography and influences: Camus : a life lived in critical times / Ieme Van Der Poel. Situating Camus : the formative influences / Toby Garfitt. Autobiographical soundings in L'envers et l'endroit / Edward J. Hughes
  • Themes, preoccupations and genres: Rethinking the absurd : Le mythe de Sisyphe / David Carroll. Camus and the theatre / Christine Margerrison. Camus the journalist / Jeanyves Guerin. Camus and social justice / Martin Crowley. Violence and ethics in Camus / Colin Davis. Camus and Sartre : the great quarrel / Charles Forsdick. Portraits of women, visions of Algeria / Danielle Marx-Scouras
  • Texts and contexts: From Noces to L'etranger / Peter Dunwoodie. Layers of meaning in La peste / Margaret E. Gray. Withheld identity in La chute / David R. Ellison. Le premier homme and the literature of loss / Debra Kelly
  • Postface / Edward J. Hughes.

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