Michel Tournier, Le Coq de Bruyère

Michel Tournier, Le Coq de Bruyère

Author: W. D. Redfern

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780838636275

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This book is a study of Michel Tournier's collection of short stories, Le Coq de bruyere, but it is also much more. Author Walter Redfern sees the stories as a microcosm of the whole fictional universe of Tournier, widely regarded as France's premier living writer.


Short French Fiction

Short French Fiction

Author: John Flower

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780859895705

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With individual chapters written by specialists, Short French Fiction offers the reader new insights into some of the best examples of this genre and an impression of where this type of writing is heading as the new millennium approaches.


French Twentieth Bibliography

French Twentieth Bibliography

Author: Douglas W. Alden

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 1995-08

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780945636861

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This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.


Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions

Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions

Author: Susan Petit

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9027217599

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This 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.


Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature

Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature

Author: M. Bryden

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-11-28

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0230800793

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Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Despite asserting that he was not a literary critic, Deleuze provides exhilarating and original interactions with texts. This study offers in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and the writers who fascinated him, demonstrating the productivity of a Deleuzian frame of reference.


Audio Book

Audio Book

Author: Mikko Keskinen

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780739118313

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Audio Book deals with the ways in which various technologies enabling the transmission or storing of sound and voice are figured in selected works drawn from contemporary narrative fiction. The sound technologies are shown to influence the narrative structure, metaphorics, and style of the works studied.


Paternity and Fatherhood

Paternity and Fatherhood

Author: Lieve Spaas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1349138169

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What kind of connotation does the word 'father' have in everyday language? How have states and governments defined and manipulated the paternal role? What is a 'father-figure'? What can literature tell us about absent or overbearing fathers? How far is the cultural construct of fatherhood linked to biological paternity, and what is biological paternity? These are some of the questions explored through the chapters in this book, which together offer a fascinatingly complex view of fatherhood across the centuries.


Deleuze and Religion

Deleuze and Religion

Author: Mary Bryden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1134551843

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Despite the ever-expanding body of Deleuzian scholarship, single volume has explored the religious dimensions of Delueze's writing. Now, Mary Bryden has assembled a team of international scholars to do just that. Their essays illustrate the ways in which Deleuzian thought is antithetical to religious debate, as well as the ways in which it contributes to those debates. This volume will be invaluable for researchers, teachers and students of theology, philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies and literary criticism as well as to students of French who read Deleuze's work in its original language.


Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Author: Hubert Zapf

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 3110314592

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Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origins in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American academia, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.