Haunting presences: Ghosts in French literature and culture

Griffiths, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3335-7092 and Evans, David, eds. 2009. Haunting presences: Ghosts in French literature and culture. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

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Abstract

This book responds to the current critical interest in phantoms and haunting. It explores and assesses the twentieth century's fascination with the ghost in relation to notions of identity, authorship and memory, tracing the changing form of the ghost in key twentieth-century French media: film, photography, literature and theory. However, the ghosts of works present cannot be understood fully without considering the ghosts of works past. Each of the twentieth-century works analyzed considers itself haunted by the past, by memory, be it personal or textual. Consequently, this volume also considers this past and these textual memories by exploring specific ghosts in successive ages (Medieval, Renaissance, Early-Modern and the nineteenth century) and genres key to these epochs (poetry, drama and the novel).Thus, this collection offers an insight into the ghost's past, its evolution across time and genre, before turning to focus on how art in twentieth-century France deals with its textual memories and the ghosts of its past. A substantial introduction explains and pulls

Item Type:	Book - edited
Book Type:	Edited Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Modern Languages
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Publisher:	University of Wales Press
ISBN:	9780708321812
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2026 16:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/26971

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