| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford modern languages and literature monographs |
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Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Crisis, critical perspectives, and fin de millenaire prose fiction -- Jean Echenoz: problematic pattern and symbolic violence -- Michel Houellebecq: ideological challenge and precipitating crisis -- Christine Angot: trauma, transgression, and the write to reply -- Marie Redonnet: resistance, barbarism, and self-satisfied contemplation |
| Summary |
In this closely analytical study, Cruickshank reads the work of four influential writers of prose fiction - Angot, Echenoz, Houellebecq, and Redonnet - in the context of the turn of the millennium in France, which coincided with a number of tangible crises and apocalyptic discourses, and with the growth of the mass media and global market |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Echenoz, Jean -- Criticism and interpretation
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Houellebecq, Michel -- Criticism and interpretation
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Angot, Christine -- Criticism and interpretation
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Redonnet, Marie -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Angot, Christine fast |
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Echenoz, Jean fast |
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Houellebecq, Michel fast |
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Redonnet, Marie fast |
| Subject |
French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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French fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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French fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191571923 |
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019157192X |
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9780191721793 |
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0191721794 |
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