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Void and Voice : Questioning Narrative Conventions in André Gide's Major First-Person Narratives /

Charles O'Keefe provides a close reading of Andre Gide's three major first-person narratives--L'Immoraliste, La Porte etroite, and La Symphonie pastorale--through the lens of semiotics and narratology. O'Keefe argues that Gide is in many ways a 'pre-postmodernist' who u...

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Autor principal: O'Keefe, Charles, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Dept. of Romance Languages, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. L'Immoraliste. I. Narrative Form Touched by Excess. II. Questioning the Conventional Interpretation of the Framed Narrative in L'Immoraliste. A. Who Speaks? B. Historical Context of Framed Narrative. C. New Critical Space. D. Paradigmatic Value of the Frame in L'Immoraliste. III. Contradictions Inherent in the Accessible Voice. A. Michel, An Echo of Menalque. B. Michel, An Intertext of Rousseau. C. The Palimpsest
  • Ch. 2. La Porte etroite. I. Jerome as Editor. A. Jerome the Misquoting "Author" B. Narrator vs. Editor. C. Critical Yield. D. Forme et Fond. II. Onomastics. A. Names of Secondary Characters. B. "Alissa" and "Jerome"
  • Ch. 3. La Symphonie pastorale. I. How Do We Read a Lying Narrator? A. The Critical Dawning. B. Accusing the Pastor. C. Justifying a Consideration of Narrative Lying. D. Reading the Lie. E. Lying or Evangelizing? F. The Hidden Agendas. G. Verbal and Erotic Anarchy. H. Semiosis and the Drama of Substitution. II. Onomastics.