Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions

Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions
Author: Susan Petit
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027217599

This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.

Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction
Author: David Platten
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1999-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1781387672

Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’.

Gemini

Gemini
Author: Michel Tournier
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 916
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780801857768

Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders, even their parents, cannot tell them apart, and call them Jean-Paul. When Jean rebels against their unity and deserts his brother, Paul sets out to follow him in a pilgrimage that leads all around the world, through places that reflect their separation.

Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction
Author: Jean-Pierre Boulé
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 085323843X

Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’.

Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier
Author: Michael Worton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317896394

This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier.

Transcending Boundaries

Transcending Boundaries
Author: Sandra L. Beckett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135685932

Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults is a collection of essays on twentieth-century authors who cross the borders between adult and children's literature and appeal to both audiences. This collection of fourteen essays by scholars from eight countries constitutes the first book devoted to the art of crosswriting the child and adult in twentieth-century international literature. Sandra Beckett explores the multifaceted nature of crossover literature and the diverse ways in which writers cross the borders to address a dual readership of children and adults. It considers classics such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Pinocchio, with particular emphasis on post-World War II literature. The essays in Transcending Boundaries clearly suggest that crossover literature is a major, widespread trend that appears to be sharply on the rise.

Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier
Author: Mairi Maclean
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2003
Genre: Interpersonal relations in literature
ISBN:

Crossover Fiction

Crossover Fiction
Author: Sandra L. Beckett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 682
Release: 2010-11-24
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1135861293

In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. This study will have significant relevance across disciplines, as scholars in literary studies, media and cultural studies, visual arts, education, psychology, and sociology examine the increasingly blurred borderlines between adults and young people in contemporary society, notably with regard to their consumption of popular culture.

The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel

The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel
Author: Karen L. Taylor
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2006
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0816074992

French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.