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Item Details
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THRESHOLDS OF MEANING
PASSAGE, RITUAL AND LIMINALITY IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH NARRATIVE |
| By: |
Jean Duffy |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£75.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846316669 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846316661 |
| Publisher: |
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2011 |
| Series: |
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures 18 |
| Pages: |
364 |
| Description: |
Examines contemporary French narrative and explores two related issues: the centrality within French fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality; and, the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Synopsis: |
"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; and, the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the close analysis of novels and recits by Pierre Bergounioux, Francois Bon, Marie Darrieussecq, Helene 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 shared repertoire of motifs and themes, engages with the complex processes by which meaning is produced in the referential world and, in particular, with the rituals and codes that social man brings into play in order to negotiate the various stages of the human life-cycle. By the application of concepts and models derived from ritual theory and from visual analysis, "Thresholds of Meaning" situates itself at the intersection of the developing field of literature and anthropology studies and research into word and image. |
| Illustrations: |
8 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Liverpool University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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