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The Sunday of fiction : the modern French eccentric /

"In a world of increasing conformity, the modern eccentric can be seen as a contemporary hero and guardian of individualism. With this rudimentary notion of the eccentric in mind, this book defines the modern eccentric in twentieth-century French literature by tracing the eccentric's relat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schulman, Peter, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2003.
Colección:Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 25.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A la recherche de l'excentrique perdu
  • Nineteenth-Century Eccentric Prototypes
  • The Anglomane
  • The Grand dictionnaire universel
  • Le fou litteraire
  • The Romantic Adventure Hero
  • The Dandy and the Eccentric
  • The Decadent Eccentric
  • Jules Verne's Eccentric Stationary Travelers
  • Fin de Siecle Eccentricity
  • The Clinamen: The Discreet Eccentric
  • The Swerve
  • The Clinamen as a Metaphor for the Eccentric
  • Salavin, Duhamel's White-Collar Eccentric
  • Monsieur, Toussaint's Modern-Day Salavin
  • Echenoz's Eccentric Adventure Hero
  • Etaix's Eccentric Suitor
  • Des Forets's Eccentric Chatterbox
  • Perec's Clinamen: Eccentricity, A User's Manual
  • The Eccentric's Universe
  • The Sunday of Life
  • The Amusement Park
  • The Banlieue: An Ex-centered Paradise of Movie Palaces and Cafes
  • The Vanishing Pleasures of Everyday Life
  • The Eccentric's Reactions to the New World around Us
  • Eccentric Space, Eccentric Time: The Eccentric's Hour Glass
  • Conclusion: L'excentrique retrouve.