Lucidity
Essays in Honour of Alison Finch
Edited by Ian James and Emma Wilson
Click cover to enlarge | Legenda 1 September 2016 • 208pp ISBN: 978-1-909662-88-9 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-315543-19-2 (Taylor & Francis ebook) This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites, forms of obscurity and darkness. They offer attention to problems of philosophical thought and reason, to questions of literary and poetic form, and of photographic and filmic contemplation. Ranging from engagements with early modern writing through to more recent material the contributions focus in particular on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French prose and poetry, the field which has been the predominant focus of Alison Finch’s critical writing. They are written as tributes to the distinctively lucid insights of her work and to the breadth and clarity of its intellectual engagement. Ian James is Reader in Modern French Literature and Thought at Downing College, Cambridge, and Emma Wilson Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Reviews:
Contents: Bibliography entry: James, Ian, and Emma Wilson (eds), Lucidity: Essays in Honour of Alison Finch (Legenda, 2016) First footnote reference: 35 Lucidity: Essays in Honour of Alison Finch, ed. by Ian James and Emma Wilson (Legenda, 2016), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 James and Wilson, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: James, Ian, and Emma Wilson (eds). 2016. Lucidity: Essays in Honour of Alison Finch (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (James and Wilson 2016: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 James and Wilson 2016: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.)
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