Rangarajan Critical Essays on Michel Butor’s «L’Emploi du temps»

300. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4539-1016-0
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 211, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures

Michel Butor, one of the earliest exponents of the French New Novel, is known for experimenting with narrative voice (the second-person narration in La Modification), focalization (the changes in narrative perspective in Degrés), and the treatment of genres (L’Emploi du temps).L’Emploi du temps (1956) is a quintessential nouveau roman for it is about a novel within a novel. In Critical Essays on Michel Butor’s L’Emploi du temps, Sudarsan Rangarajan examines the different aspects of the novel from a postmodern perspective. Engaging contemporary theorists – Sartre, Foucault, de Man, and Prince among others – the essays encompass diverse areas: narratology, rhetoric, genre studies, existentialism, and postcolonialism. From the analysis of the beginnings and the function of narratees to the study of rhetoric, the journalistic discourse, the hybridization of the detective and the Gothic genres, the figure of the flâneur, and postcolonialist concepts (the elite and the subaltern), the essays provide new insights into one of the greatest twentieth-century novels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rangarajan, Sudarsan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Sudarsan Rangarajan received his PhD in French from Florida State University. Currently he is Associate Professor of French and Coordinator of the French program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His areas of interest include contemporary French and Québécois literatures and critical theory. His articles have appeared in The French Review, Neophilologus, Symposium and Dalhousie French Studies.