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Thresholds of Meaning : Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative.
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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.