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The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing in France, Great Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce's "revolution of the word" in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines through the work of more than fifty writers up to the present, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, B. S. Johnson, William Burroughs, Christine Brooke-Rose, Georges Perec, Kathy Acker, Iain Sinclair, Hélène Cixous, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others. Centering the exploration around five writing strategies employed by Joyce-narrative parallax, stylistic metempsychosis, concrete writing, forgery, and neologizing the logos-the book reveals the striking continuities and developments from Joyce's day to our own.
American fiction --- English fiction --- French fiction --- Irish fiction --- Joyce, James,
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"Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-régime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts, but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality"--
Autobiographical fiction, French --- French fiction --- Prostitutes in literature --- Libertines in literature --- Women in literature --- History and criticism
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Que l’amour recèle une angoisse qui le hante comme son ombre, que le secret d’un nom, Perceval, Lancelot ou Swann, structure de manière invisible tout un édifice romanesque, que la nuit intérieure de l’âme ou « la grande forêt obscure » de l’errance prélude à l’illumination qui la régénère, que l’écriture ne se déploie que sous forme d’une réécriture ou d’une traduction, autant de traits qui apparentent les deux sommes romanesques qui ont ouvert, pour l’une, et accompli, pour l’autre, la littérature narrative d’imagination en prose française : Le Livre de Lancelot, au XIIIe siècle, À la recherche du temps perdu, au XXe. Aux deux bouts de la chaîne se tiennent et se répondent dans ce qu’elles mettent en jeu – au regard de la subjectivité et du désir aux prises avec un impossible, d’une expérience d’amour et d’une transformation intérieure –, l’œuvre du Maître anonyme du premier roman en prose, hanté par un fond de ténèbres et de lumières des romans en vers qui l’ont nourri, et celle de Marcel Proust, qui clôt un cycle en puisant réflexivement aux sources vives de la mémoire les raisons de son passage à l’écriture. C’est en remontant le temps, du familier à l’antérieur par le truchement du drame wagnérien, où l’impossible est de posséder à la fois la puissance et l’amour, que se propose au lecteur la redécouverte d’un horizon devenu étranger, tel un continent perdu.
French fiction --- Roman français. --- History and criticism. --- Proust, Marcel, --- Proust, Marcel (1871-1922). --- Lancelot (Prose romance) --- Lancelot du Lac.
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First published in 1992, Political Stylistics is a way of studying the formal properties of texts based on the principle that all linguistic production operates within the intricate network of power relations that structure the social realm.
French fiction --- French language --- Literary style. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Popular culture in literature. --- Power (Social sciences) in literature. --- Working class in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Style.
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