Narrative Voices In Modern French Fiction
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Author | : Valerie Minogue |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
This collection of essays focuses primarily on the narrative voice in French fiction from the mid-19th century to the present, from Balzac through Zola and Proust to the "nouveau roman".
Author | : Celine Curiol |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1583229795 |
Finalist for Best Translated Book of 2008 by the Hermeneutic Circle French Voices Award A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris's gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and the man she loves, she finds herself at a crossroads, pitting her desire against her sanity. This smashing debut novel sparkles with mordant humor and sexy charm.
Author | : Rachel May Golden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 9780813069036 |
This volume brings together literary and musical compositions of medieval France, identifying the use of voice in these works as a way of articulating gendered identities.
Author | : Lauren Elkin |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374715890 |
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a “determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.” Virginia Woolf called it “street haunting”; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany’s; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York. Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she’s lived. We are shown the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the wartime correspondent Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship that women have with the metropolis. Called “deliciously spiky and seditious” by The Guardian, Flâneuse will inspire you to light out for the great cities yourself.
Author | : Sotirios Paraschas |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319692909 |
This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of literary property. While the reappearance of characters in the works of canonical authors such as Honoré de Balzac and Émile Zola is usually seen as a device which transforms the individual works of an author into a coherent whole, this book argues that the unprecedented systematisation of the reappearance of characters in the nineteenth century has to be seen within a wider cultural, economic, and legal context. While fictional characters are seen as original creations by their authors, from a legal point of view they are considered to be ‘ideas’ which are not protected and can be appropriated by anyone. By co-examining the reappearance of characters in the work of canonical authors and their reappearances in unauthorised appropriations, such as stage adaptations and sequels, this book discusses a series of issues that have shaped our understanding of authorship, originality, and property.
Author | : Teresa Bridgeman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2005-08-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134790066 |
Applies insights from pragmatic theory to the French novel in order to examine its discourse conventions. Focusing on texts by some of the greatest and most innovative French novelists.
Author | : Susan Sniader Lanser |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780801480201 |
Annotation Writing from positions of cultural exclusion, women have faced constraints not only upon the "content" of fiction but upon the act of narration itself. Narrative voice thus becomes a matter not simply of technique but of social authority: how to speak publicly, to whom, and in whose name. Susan Sniader Lanser here explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. Drawing upon narratological and feminist theory, Lanser sheds new light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power.
Author | : Anna-Louise Milne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108658849 |
Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.
Author | : Mariah Devereux Herbeck |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-10-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137339993 |
How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why does it? As a means to answering these questions, Wandering Women in French Film and Literature examines the phenomenon of 'narrative drift' through in-depth analysis of twentieth-century novels and films.
Author | : Namascar Shaktini |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780252029844 |
Monique Wittig, who died in January 2003, was a leading French feminist, social theorist, prose poet, and novelist--and an activist who helped start the lesbian and women's liberation movements in France. This collection of essays by Wittig and on her work is the first sustained examination in English of her broad-ranging political, literary, and theoretical viewpoints. On Monique Wittig contains twelve essays, representing French, Francophone, and U.S. critics, including three previously unpublished pieces by Wittig herself. Among the essays is Diane Griffin Crowder's discussion of the U.S. feminist movement, Linda Zerilli's consideration of gender and will, and Teresa de Lauretis's examination of the development of lesbian theory. Together, these essays situate Wittig's work in terms of the cultural contexts of its production and reception. This volume also contains the first authenticated chronology of Wittig's life and features the first translation of "For a Movement of Women's Liberation," which Wittig published with other "militantes" in May 1970. As the first book to appear on Wittig following her death, On Monique Wittig is an indispensable tool for feminist scholars.