Adventure in France and Ireland through Literature and Culture

This collection examines the role that adventure has played and continues to play in French and Irish society and culture in areas as diverse as literature, theatre, war journalism, painting, photography, sport and diplomatic dining.

Autorentext

Brigitte Bastiat holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies (University of Paris Saint-Denis). She taught English at the University of La Rochelle for 25 years and was a member of the CRHIA (EA 1163 Research Centre for International Atlantic History). Frank Healy holds a PhD in Immunology, is a lecturer in English for Special Purposes at La Rochelle Université, and a member of the CRHIA (EA 1163 Research Centre for Atlantic and International History).

Inhalt

Brigitte Bastiat and Frank Healy: Introduction: Adventure: Perspectives from France and Ireland - Mary Pierse: Considering Adventure on Literary Pathways - Claudia Luppino: "Well, you are about to enter the land of the free and the brave": The adventure of self-discovery and re-invention in Colm Tóibín's writing - Eamon Maher: Memory and Adventure: Marcel Proust and John McGahern - Benjamin Keatinge: Paddy Bushe in Paris: Adventures in Ekphrasis - Martine Pelletier: Staging Brian Friel in France - Quite an adventure! - Serge Linkes: De ' Chez les Sinn Féiners ' (1920) à Mary de Cork (1924), Joseph Kessel témoin de ' L'Irlande révolutionnaire ' - Estelle Epinoux and Cathy Roche: ' Mary de Cork ' : une aventure au féminin en clair-obscur dans la nouvelle de Joseph Kessel (1924) et l'adaptation cinématographique de Maurice Cazeneuve (1967) - Claire Dubois: ' Un roman d'aventure réel ': reporting on the Irish war of independence for a French audience - Tony Kiely: William Orpen's Exposure to The Great War: A Human and Artistic Adventure - Danielle Baraka: De la France à l'Irlande : Marguerite Mespoulet et Madeleine Mignon, une expédition photographique en Irlande en 1913 - Ugo Ryckman: Surfing in Ireland: beyond frontiers - Elaine Mahon: 'An intriguing but Ambiguous Privilege': Adventures in Franco-Irish Relations through the Prism of the Diplomatic Meal.