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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Keefe, Charles, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : Dept. of Romance Languages, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gide, Andre, > 1869-1951.
Gide, Andre, > 1869-1951. > Symphonie pastorale.
Gide, Andre, > 1869-1951. > Porte etroite.
Gide, Andre, > 1869-1951. > Immoraliste.
Gide, Andre, > 1869-1951 > Critique et interpretation.
Gide, Andre, > 1869-1951 > Criticism and interpretation.
Porte etroite (Gide, Andre)
Immoraliste (Gide, Andre)
Fictie.
First person narrative.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Recits à la premiere personne.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 uses narrative strategies to show that there is a crucial connection between telling a story and telling the self. In particular, O'Keefe demonstrates the paradoxical fact that the tales simultaneously subvert and generate the illusion of their own mimetic presence. O'Keefe's study, with its judicious use of deconstructionist techniques, offers new insights into the literary and philosophical implications of Gide's fiction.
Physical Description:1 online resource (260 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469642598

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