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ALTER EGO

THE CRITICAL WRITINGS OF MICHEL LEIRIS

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Director: Martin McLaughlin
Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies

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RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS IN FRENCH STUDIES

Editorial Committee
Professor Michael Moriarty, Queen Mary, University of London
(General Editor)
Dr Adrian Armstrong, University of Manchester
Dr Wendy Ayres-Bennett, New Hall, Cambridge
Professor Celia Britton, University College London
Professor Diana Knight, University of Nottingham
Professor Bill Marshall, University of Glasgow

Published in this Series:
1. Privileged Anonymity: The Writings of Madame de Lafayette by Anne Green
2. Stphane Mallarm. Correspondance: complments et supplments
edited by Lloyd James Austin, Bertrand Marchal and Nicola Luckhurst
3. Critical Fictions: Nerval's 'Les Illumins' by Meryl Tyers
4. Towards a Cultural Philology by Amy Wygant
5. George Sand and Autobiography by Janet Hiddleston
6. Expressivism by Johnnie Gratton
7. Memory and Survival: The French Cinema of Krzvsztof Kielowski
by Emma Wilson
8 . Between Sequence and Sirventes by Catherine Lglu
9. All Puns Intended: The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset
by Walter Redfern
10. Saint-Evremond: A Voice From Exile edited by Denys Potts
11. La Cort d'Amor: A Critical Edition edited by Matthew Bardell
12. Race and the Unconscious by Celia Britton
13. Proust: La Traduction du sensible by Nathalie Aubert
14. Silent Witness: Racine's Nott-Verbal Annotations of Euripides
by Susanna Phillippo
15. Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony by Martin Crowley
16. By the People for the People?: Euqne Sue's Les Mystres de Paris
by Christopher Prendergast

LEGENDA

EUROPEAN HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE
RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS IN FRENCH STUDIES 17

The Critical Writings of Michel Leiris

Sen Hand

First published 2004

Published for the Society for French Studies by the
European Humanities Research Centre
of the University of Oxford
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Oxford OX2 6LE

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European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford 2004

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