Narratives of French modernity
Subtitle: themes, forms and metamorphoses : essays in honour of David Gascoigne
By: Lorna Milne and Mary Orr (eds)
Contributors: Gascoigne, David
Series: Modern French identities -- v. 62; Modern French identities -- v. 62.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9783039110513
Subjects: French literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-337) and indexes.

English and French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lorna Milne and Mary Orr; title: A void to avoid a void / Ian Higgins; title: Apollinaire's voluptuous calvary: lexical fields, generic conventions and narrative space in Les Onze mille verges / Peter Read; title: Céline, invective and the dismantling of narrative: Casse-pipe / Michael Tilby; title: Mounier multivocalist: towards a multiple articulation of the French experience of Black Africa / Michael Kelly; title: The rhetoric of the border in Julien Gracq's Le Rivage des Syrtes / Robin MacKenzie; title: The Mémoires of Doctor Lamballe and Mister Swing Troubadour: echoes of Vidocq and Robert Louis Stevenson in Patrick Modiano's La Ronde de nuit / Alan Morris; title: L'Enfance perturbe et fertilise le récit dans la littérature française aise du vingtième siècle: l'exemple de Chamoiseau / Anne Chevalier; title: "On transporte avec soi une esapèce de gouffre": textual spaces and literary heritage in Michel Houellebecq's Poésies / David Evans; title: Tournier and his intellectual milieu: narratives of modernity / Mairi Maclean; title: Footprint in the sand: Tournier's re-writing of Paul Valéry in Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique / Paul Gifford; title: "Terre d'asile, terre d'accueil": explorations of the Robinsonade in Pierre Mertens's Terre d'asile / Susan Bainbrigge; title: The metamorphoses of forms in Tournier's Roi des Aulnes and Pierrette Fleutiaux's Métamorphoses de la reine / Mary Orr; title: Deep space: a sojourn in the salt mines with Michel Tournier and Marie Nimier / Lorna Milne; title: Les nuits de Sylvie Germain et le pari de Pascal / Alain Goulet; title: Sylvie Germain: fable, cri, echolalia / Toby Garfitt; title: Is France post post-war? judging the Nazi past in recent novels by Maud Tabachnik, Michel Rio and Sylvie Germain / Margaret-Anne Hutton; title: David Gascoigne: publications.