The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first. Focusing on the period bookended by these two moments, it highlights the enduring concern with factual reference in texts that engage either with current events or the historical archive. Specifically, it considers a set of ideas and practices centered on the conceptualization and use of documents. In doing so, it contests the widespread narrative that twentieth-century French literature abandons the realist enterprise, and argues that writers instead renegotiate the realist legacy outside, or at the margins of, the fictional space of the novel. Analyzing works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, the book defines a specific documentary mode of literary representation that records, assembles, and investigates material traces of reality. The document is a textual, visual, or material piece of evidence repurposed through its visual insertion, textual transcription, or description within a literary work. It is a fact, but it also becomes a figure, standing for literature's confrontation with the real. The documentary imagination involves a fantasy of direct access to a reality that speaks for itself. At the same time, it gives rise to concrete textual practices that open up new directions for literature, by interrogating the construction and interpretation of facts.

The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature: Writing with Facts

Literature & Fiction

James, Alison

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

A stunningly original re-imagining of the Catholic faith by one of the most lucid and exciting theologians writing today. Alison offers an account of Christianity that is moving, liberating, and deeply perconal, yet rooted in Catholic tradition. This is not a book of gay theology but, much more daringly, of catholic theology from a gay perspective.

Faith Beyond Resentment

Religion & Spirituality

Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd.

On Being Liked is the transforming and joyful sequel to Faith Beyond Resentment, which established James Alison as one of the most striking, original, and intellectually irresistible voices in the church. In this book he invites us to let go of a commomnly-held account of salvation and takes us step-by-step through a bold adventure of re-imagining the central axis of the Christian story, not as 'How does God deal with sin?' but as 'How do we take up God's invitation to sharein the act of creation?'.

On Being Liked

Darton, Longman, and Todd

Undergoing God: Dispatches from the Scene of a Break in

This new book from James Alison has all the brilliance, wit and panache that have made him one of the most influential contemporary Catholic writers. Celebrated for his firm but gentle insistence on facing down current ecclesiastical teaching on homosexuality with the question, Yes, but is it true? , and his wry observations as the church flails around on gay issues, Alison is also admired and enjoyed for the freshness and verve of his interpretations of scripture, for his dazzling word play and teasing connections, surprises and reversals. Alison develops the implications for theology and religion of the insights of the French literary critic and philosopher René Girard, which expose the violence hidden at the heart of our culture. He shows how Girard s concepts of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism both confirm and transform our understanding of Christianity.

Broken Hearts and New Creations

Christian Books & Bibles

Theology

Continuum

Knowing Jesus

SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)

This introduction to Christian theology focuses on the central mysteries of the Gospels, the Passion and the Resurrection. The author sets out a comprehensive theology of how we can be transformed and freed from a culture of violence into a new state where we share in the imagination of Jesus.

Living in the End Times

SPCK Publishing

Raising Abel is a theological exploration of a huge change of mind: the change which the apostolic group underwent as a result of the Resurrection-and how that paradigm can transform the world today. Making use of the thought of Rene Girard, the author shows how the God revealed by Jesus subverted the violent expectations of the early Christians.

Raising Abel

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Third Grade Success: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Child Learn

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jossey-Bass

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Preschool Success: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Child Learn

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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