| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 18 |
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 18.
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| Contents |
Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1 At death's door: illness, ritual and liminality in Darrieussecq, Lenoir, and Mauvignier; 2 Suicide and saving face in Bon, Mauvignier and Bergounioux; 3 Commemoration, monument and identity in Bergounioux, Darrieussecq and Rouaud; 4 Retouching the past: family photographs and documents in Rouaud, Bon and Lenoir; Conclusion: Writing passage and the passage to writing; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Thresholds of Meaning examines contemporary French narrative and explores two related issues: the centrality within recent French fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality; the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the close analysis of novels and récits by Pierre Bergounioux, François Bon, Marie Darrieussecq, Hélène Lenoir, Laurent Mauvignier and Jean Rouaud, Duffy demonstrates the ways in which contemporary narrative, while capitalising on the formal lessons of the nouveau roman and drawing upon a s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
French fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Ritual in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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French fiction
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Ritual in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781846316791 |
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1846316790 |
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1846316669 |
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9781846316661 |
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1781387915 |
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9781781387917 |
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