Matters of Time ― Material Temporalities in Twentieth-century French Culture

Scholars of modernism in art and literature look at 20th-century French culture in terms of revolution, work, and time; the politics of finitude; abject matter; transformations of temporality and materiality; and topological writing. Among the topics are political time in the work of Jean Jaurees, the Mouvement du 22 mars and the Dawn of May '68, doing time with Bastille martyrs and modern saints, Frank O'Hara's anti-Cocteau movement, rhythmanalysis and Bertin's Les Jeures Marseillaises, and temporal threads in Jean Genet. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Lisa Jeschke is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on late modernist poetry and theatricality. She is co-editor at Materials, a small press that publishes poetry and critical thought.
Adrian May is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge. His thesis uses the contemporary French intellectual publication Lignes to explore what has happened to the radical philosophical left over the past twenty-five years.