Wampole Degenerative Realism

Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54603-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Literature Now

Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques an emergent tendency toward “degenerative realism.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wampole, Christy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction. What Is Degenerative Realism?
1. Demography and Survival in Twenty-First-Century France
2. Endarkenment from the Minitel to the Internet
3. Real-Time Realism, Part 1: Journalistic Immediacy
4. Real-Time Realism, Part 2: Le roman post-pamphlétaire
Conclusion. Novel as Nation: Forms of Parallel Decay
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christy Wampole is associate professor of French at Princeton University. She is the author of Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (2016) and The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation (2015).