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Author: Peter V. Conroy
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789027217332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcentrating on the reader places the entire epistolary exchange in a new light and accentuates the use of the word as an instrument of power and the letter as a tool for domination.
Author: Stephanie A. Sieburth
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9789027217448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCriticism of La Regenta has until recently focused on the text's plot as an extraordinarily coherent and convincing fictional world. Stephanie A. Sieburth demonstrates that the devices which produce order in the text are counterbalanced by an equally strong tendency toward entropy of meaning. The narrator is shown to be duplicitous and unreliable in his judgments on characters and events. Without an omniscient narrator, readers must interpret for themselves the complex intertextual structure of the novel. Saints' lives, honor plays, and serial novels each provide partial reflections of Ana Ozores' story. The text becomes a collage of mutually reflecting segments which, like Ana in her moments of self-doubt and madness, ultimately question the function of language and of any overriding interpretation or meaning.
Author: Karen L. Taylor
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0816074992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrench 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.
Author: Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789027217509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApplying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scholarship to the problems of gender representation, Charnon-Deutsch challenges the prevailing idea that the 19th-century Spanish novel is woman centered. The author's examination of novels by Valera, Pereda, Alas, and Galdos demonstrates that these works are instead a complex exploration of male identity. Decoding the gender ideology of women's roles, discourse, and representations, Charnon-Deutsch uncovers in the novels multiple configurations of androcentricity as well as voyeuristic tendencies, which she interprets as a means of mastering what is threatening to the male psyche.
Author: John C. O'Neal
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2008-08-26
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0271027797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as &"the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France.&" The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century French sensationism, The Authority of Experience presents the history of a complex set of ideas and explores their important ramifications for literature, education, and moral theory. The study begins by presenting the main ideas of sensationist philosophers Condillac, Bonnet, and Helv&étius, who held that all of our ideas come to us through the senses. The experience of the body in seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching enabled individuals, as John C. O'Neal points out, to challenge the sometimes arbitrary authority of institutions and people in positions of power. After a general introduction to sensationism, the author develops a theory of sensationist aesthetics that not only reveals the interconnections of the period's philosophy and literature but also enhances our awareness of the forces at work in the French novel. He goes on to examine the relations between sensationism and eighteenth-century French educational theory, materialism, and id&éologie. Ultimately, O'Neal opens a discussion of the implications of sensationist thought for issues of particular concern to society today.
Author: Susan Petit
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789027217608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Julie Candler Hayes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789027217561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a study drawing on contemporary and 18th-century literary theory and philosophy, social history and history of the theatre, Hayes presents a reading of the dramas of Diderot and Sade and argues for a new understanding of the genre as a whole.
Author: Antoinette Marie Sol
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780838755006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing on correspondence, novels, literary criticism, and other documents by Riccoboni, Laclos, and Burney, Antoinette Sol demonstrates how these novelists, traditionally separated by nationality, gender, and genre, are in fact concerned with similar issues of individual authority and social criticism. She shows how arbitrary literary categorization of these writers as sentimental or libertine has kept their work from a reading which reveals their commonalities."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Syndy M. Conger
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780838633526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the period from about 1690 to 1890, these essays depict an age of sensibility that was in transformation. New connections are revealed between sensibility and other key preoccupations of the age, including the feminine ideal and the poetic imagination.
Author: Aimée Israel-Pelletier
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781556193002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsrael Pelletier argues that "Trois contes" demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from "Madame Bovary" and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert's attitude toward his characters and the role of fiction had changed to accommodate different social, political, and literary pressures. He constructed two opposing levels of meaning for each of the stories, straight and ironic, which produced a more fruitful way of addressing some of his concerns and assumptions about langauge and illusion. Included in this study are a provocative feminist reading of "Un Coeur," an assessment of "Saint Julien" as Flaubert's attempt to come to terms with his originality as a writer, and an interpretation of "Herodias" as an autobiography of the writing process.
