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Julian Barnes : l'art du mélange
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ISBN: 286781281X Year: 2001 Publisher: Bordeaux : Presses universitaires de Bordeaux,

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Julian Barnes
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ISBN: 0746309783 9780746309780 Year: 2002 Publisher: Plymouth : Northcote House,

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The book examines each of Barnes' novels under his own name, indicating how his treatment of common themes in inventive structures helps to invigorate both the themes and the novel form itself. The book provides a brief introductory overview of Barnes' career and then offers a discussion of each of the novels written in his own name. Focusing on the novels themselves, the chapters offer close readings that seek to highlight the dominant ideas of each text. These range across such areas as narrative inventiveness, questions of love, notions of truth and justice, friendship and betrayal, cynicism, faith, politics, and art. While each novel is talked about in its own right, the book aims to demonstrate that Barnes' writings constantly attempt to push the limits of the novel form, however subtly, and that, as such, he is one of the most important writers in Britain today.


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Contemporary second- and third-person autobiographical writing : narrating the male self
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ISBN: 1032385049 1032385049 9781032385051 1032385057 9781032385044 1032385057 9781032385051 9781032385044 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York: Routledge,

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This book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers. Through detailed readings of contemporary autobiographical works by Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the study demonstrates the multiple aesthetic, rhetorical, and un/ethical implications of the choice of narrative perspective as well as the uncommon step of articulating the self from a perspective which is not I. Drawing on (rhetorical) narratology and autobiography theory, the book engages with questions and tensions of subjectivity and relationality, the interplay of distance and proximity resulting from the narrative perspective, and its effects on the relationship between autobiographer, text, and reader. In addition, the book traces relevant guiding principles the authors use to navigate their self-narratives in relation to others, such as questions of embodiment, visuality, grief, ethics, and politics. Situating the narratives in their socio-political and cultural context, the book uncovers to what extent these autobiographical narratives reflect the authors' position between self-withdrawal and self-promotion and their response to questions of male agency, self-stylisation, and celebrity status.

The fiction of Rushdie, Barnes, Winterson and Carter : breaking cultural and literary bounds in the work of four postmodernists
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ISBN: 0786422874 9780786422876 Year: 2005 Publisher: Jefferson London : McFarland,

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Literature often reflects societal change, but it can also effect change by inspiring people to think in new ways. Four authors who encourage readers to question traditional boundaries are Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Jeanette Winterson and Angela Carter. This book takes an in-depth look at the works of these authors with specific emphasis on how they challenge religion (especially in its fundamentalist forms) and its intersections with history, politics, gender and sexuality. The study notes both differences and similarities among the four authors, whose writings broadly represent the major themes in contemporary British literature. Divided into two primary sections, the volume first takes a look at Rushdie and Barnes and their stance regarding historical and political issues. The second section concentrates on gender and sexuality in the writings of Winterson and Carter. Among the works examined are Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children; Barnes’ Flaubert’s Parrot and A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters; Winterson’s Boating for Beginners and Written on the Body; and Carter’s The Passion of New Eve and Heroes and Villains. The final chapter includes a brief survey of other significant figures in postmodern British literature, including Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, D.M. Thomas, Fay Weldon and Emma Tennant.


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Le narratif, le poétique, l'argumentatif
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ISBN: 2869391161 9782869391161 Year: 1997 Publisher: Poitiers : Université de Nantes,


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Post-war British fiction : realism and after
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ISBN: 0340572159 Year: 1995 Publisher: London : Edward Arnold,

Historicité et métafiction dans le roman contemporain des îles britanniques
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ISBN: 285399337X 9782853993371 Year: 1994 Publisher: Aix-en-Provence : Université de Provence, service des publications,

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English fiction --- Experimental fiction --- Fiction --- Historical fiction, English --- Literature and history --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Time travel in literature --- Roman anglais --- Roman expérimental --- Roman --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Irish authors --- History and criticism --- Technique --- History --- Auteurs irlandais --- Histoire et critique --- Experimental fiction, English --- Time travel in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Technique. --- -Historical fiction, English --- -Postmodernism (Literature) --- -Time travel in literature --- -Experimental fiction, English --- -English fiction --- -Literature and history --- -History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- English literature --- English experimental fiction --- English historical fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- -History and criticism --- Philosophy --- -Technique --- Irish authors. --- Roman expérimental --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism. --- Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 20th century. --- English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism. --- Experimental fiction, English - History and criticism. --- Historical fiction, English - History and criticism. --- Postmodernism (Literature) - Great Britain. --- Fiction - Technique. --- Litterature irlandaise de langue anglaise --- Barnes (julian), 1946 --- -20e siecle

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