Evil in contemporary French and francophone literature
By: edited by Scott M. Powers
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781443825870
Subjects: French literature; History and criticism; Evil in literature; Ethics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Scott M. Powers; title: Political violence and/as evil : Sartre's Dirty hands / Cristian Bratu; title: The monster within : paradoxical evil and personal identity in the novels of Amélie Nothomb / Beth W. Gale; title: Writing what cannot be said : enunciating evil in Latifa Ben Mansour's novels / Bernadette Ginestet-Levine; title: The po/ethics of the child testimony : denouncing the evils of genocide in Monénembo's The oldest child / Mamadou Wattara; title: Beigbeder's evil personae in Windows on the world : authorial ethics and 9/11 / Marie-Christine Clemente; title: Is kindly just kinky? : irony and evil in Jonathan Littell's The kindly ones / Nadia Louar; title: Jonathan Littell's The kindly ones : evil and the ethical limits of the post-modern narrative / Scott M. Powers.