Alter Ego
Critical Writings of Michel Leiris

Seán Hand

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Research Monographs in French Studies 17

Legenda

1 May 2004  •  154pp

ISBN: 1-900755-98-X (paperback)  •  RRP £75, $99, €85

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Alter Ego is the first monograph in English on the critical writings of Michel Leiris (1901-90). A groundbreaking autobiographer and pioneering ethnographer, Leiris also produced important criticism on art, opera, jazz and literature, which acts as a key commentary on twentieth-century intellectual movements and demonstrates vividly the constant refashioning and reformulation of contemporary ideas and aesthetics. Hand defines and situates Leiris's core themes, analyses his criticism in each of the art areas examined, and delineates the model that emerges of a contrapuntal and heterogeneous critical identity.

Seán Hand is Professor of French and Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University. He has published on Michel Leiris, Emmanuel Levinas and contemporary aesthetics and ethics. While writing the present book he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow.

Reviews:

  • ‘This wide-ranging and incisive study covers an impressive amount of material in a short space, combining a sure grasp of context with acute close reading.’ — Douglas Smith, French Studies 60.1, 2006, 149-50

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Hand, Seán, Alter Ego: Critical Writings of Michel Leiris, Research Monographs in French Studies, 17 (Legenda, 2004)

First footnote reference: 35 Seán Hand, Alter Ego: Critical Writings of Michel Leiris, Research Monographs in French Studies, 17 (Legenda, 2004), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Hand, p. 47.

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Hand, Seán. 2004. Alter Ego: Critical Writings of Michel Leiris, Research Monographs in French Studies, 17 (Legenda)

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