Thresholds of Meaning : Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative

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The work Thresholds of Meaning : Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Thresholds of Meaning : Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative

Title remainder

Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative

Creator

• Duffy, Jean H

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• French fiction
• French fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | French
• Ritual in literature
• Ritual in literature
• 2000-2099

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

Thresholds of Meaning examines contemporary French narrative and explores two related issues: the centrality within recent French fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality; the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the close analysis of novels and récits by Pierre Bergounioux, François Bon, Marie Darrieussecq, Hélène Lenoir, Laurent Mauvignier and Jean Rouaud, Duffy demonstrates the ways in which contemporary narrative, while capitalising on the formal lessons of the nouveau roman and drawing upon a s

Member of

• Contemporary French and francophone cultures, 18

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 18