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Book Synopsis Michel Tournier, Philosophy and Fiction by : Colin Davis
Download or read book Michel Tournier, Philosophy and Fiction written by Colin Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-length study of the popular French novelist shows that his fiction cannot be understood simply as a literary transposition of philosophical ideas, and that, despite his opposition to the New Novel, he shares its assumptions about the subversive role of literature. Davis combines analysis of the major novels with discussions of Tournier's theory of reading, his attitudes toward language, and his preoccupation with the reconciliation of opposites.
Book Synopsis Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction by : David Platten
Download or read book Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction written by David Platten and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’.
Book Synopsis Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions by : Susan Petit
Download or read book Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions written by Susan Petit and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.
Book Synopsis Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction by : Jean-Pierre Boulé
Download or read book Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction written by Jean-Pierre Boulé and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’.
Book Synopsis The Mirror of Ideas by : Michel Tournier
Download or read book The Mirror of Ideas written by Michel Tournier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tournier treats pairs both lowly and exalted - moving from fork and spoon, horse and bull, cat and dog, to fear and anguish, poetry and prose, body and soul, being and nothingness. Hardly an exhaustive inventory of traditional pairs, his selection nonetheless opens the door to patterns deeply embedded in culture and civilization, speech and writing, memory and habit.
Download or read book Friday written by Michel Tournier and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls "France's best and probably best-known writer." Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind. Alone and against incredible odds, he almost succeeds. Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.
Download or read book Michel Tournier written by Michael Worton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier.
Book Synopsis Michel Tournier, Le Coq de Bruyère by : W. D. Redfern
Download or read book Michel Tournier, Le Coq de Bruyère written by W. D. Redfern and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of Michel Tournier's collection of short stories, Le Coq de bruyere, but it is also much more. Author Walter Redfern sees the stories as a microcosm of the whole fictional universe of Tournier, widely regarded as France's premier living writer.
Book Synopsis The Four Wise Men by : Michel Tournier
Download or read book The Four Wise Men written by Michel Tournier and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-09-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This may be more than a novel of high achievement, in fact; it may be the best work so far of a truly daring writer."—America Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem—and audaciously imagines a fourth, "the eternal latecomer"' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a salt mine. There, this fourth wise man learns the recipe from a fellow prisoner, and learns of the existence and meaning of Jesus.
Book Synopsis Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French by : Jason James Hartford
Download or read book Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French written by Jason James Hartford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian in art, Queering the Martyr shows how religious and secular symbols overlapped to produce not one, but two martyr-types. These are the queer type, typified first by Gustave Flaubert, which is a philosophical foil, and the gay type, popularized by Jean Genet but created by the Belgian Georges Eekhoud, which is a political and pornographic device. Grounded in feminist queer theory and working from a post-psychoanalytical point of view, the argument explores the potential and limits of these two figures, noting especially the persistence of misogyny in religious culture.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature by : Brian Nelson
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature written by Brian Nelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary tradition and the strengths of some of the most influential writers within it. Nelson offers close readings of exemplary passages from key works, presented in English translation and with the original French. The exploration of the work of important writers, including Villon, Racine, Molière, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Sartre and Beckett, highlights the richness and diversity of French literature.
Book Synopsis The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel by : Karen L. Taylor
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel written by Karen L. Taylor and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.
Book Synopsis Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions by : Susan Petit
Download or read book Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions written by Susan Petit and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.
Book Synopsis Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature by : M. Bryden
Download or read book Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature written by M. Bryden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Despite asserting that he was not a literary critic, Deleuze provides exhilarating and original interactions with texts. This study offers in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and the writers who fascinated him, demonstrating the productivity of a Deleuzian frame of reference.
Book Synopsis The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory by : H. Meretoja
Download or read book The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory written by H. Meretoja and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence.
Book Synopsis Encounters with Alphonso Lingis by : Alexander E. Hooke
Download or read book Encounters with Alphonso Lingis written by Alexander E. Hooke and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. The distinguished contributors to this volume address most of the central themes found in Lingis's writings—including singularity and otherness, death and eroticism, emotions and rationality, embodiment and the face, excess and the sacred. The book closes with a new essay by Lingis himself.
Book Synopsis French Twentieth Bibliography by : Douglas W. Alden
Download or read book French Twentieth Bibliography written by Douglas W. Alden and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely.
