{"id":1845,"date":"2013-11-14T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:31:54","slug":"new-publication-from-the-department-of-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/11\/14\/new-publication-from-the-department-of-french\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from the Department of French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three members of staff from the Department of French have just had an edited collection published by Palgrave Macmillan. <i>Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature<\/i> is edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/french\/staff\/baldwin.html\">Dr Thomas Baldwin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/french\/staff\/fowler.html\">Dr James Fowler<\/a> and Dr Ana de Medeiros.<\/p>\n<p>The collection asks broad-ranging questions. What is meant by &#8216;influence&#8217; in the realm of literature, art, music or ideas? How is it related to concepts such as pastiche or parody? Self-evidently, our understanding of any &#8216;past&#8217; work depends on contemporary methods of reading; but does it makes sense, therefore, to claim that influence can be retroactive? Harold Bloom used the term &#8216;the anxiety of influence&#8217; as the title of a famous study, but his is only one of many theorizations that span the modern era. The collected essays examines a variety of texts written in French from the eighteenth century onwards, together with a number of visual and musical works.<\/p>\n<p>For more details of the book, please see the publisher\u2019s website here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/products\/title.aspx?pid=659311\">www.palgrave.com\/products\/title.aspx?pid=659311<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three members of staff from the Department of French have just had an edited collection published by Palgrave Macmillan. Questions of Influence in Modern French &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/11\/14\/new-publication-from-the-department-of-french\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4762,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/4762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}