Violence in French and Francophone literature and film /
Stories of violence ℗ such as the account in Genesis of Cain℗s jealousy and murder of Abel ℗ have been with us since the time of the earliest recorded texts. Undeniably, the scourge of violence fascinates, confounds, and saddens. What are its uses in literature ℗ its appeal, forms, and consequences?...
| Други автори: | Day, James T., 1948- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English French |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Серия: |
French literature series ;
v. 35. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=246867 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Violence in French and Francophone literature and film. |
| Резюме: |
Stories of violence ℗ such as the account in Genesis of Cain℗s jealousy and murder of Abel ℗ have been with us since the time of the earliest recorded texts. Undeniably, the scourge of violence fascinates, confounds, and saddens. What are its uses in literature ℗ its appeal, forms, and consequences? Anchored by Alice Kaplan℗s substantial contribution, the thirteen articles in this volume cover diverse epochs, lands, and motives. One scholar ponders whether accounts of Huguenot martyrdom in the sixteenth-century might suggest more pride than piety. Another assesses the real versus the true with respect to a rape scene in The Heptameron. Female violence in fairy tales by Madame d℗Aulnoy points to gender politics and the fragility of female solidarity, while another article examines similar issues in the context of Ananda Devi℗s works in present-day Mauritius. Other studies address the question of sadism in Flaubert, the unstable point of view of Emmanuel Carrere℗s L℗Adversaire, the ambivalence toward violence in Chamoiseau℗s Texaco, the notions of ℗terror℗ and ℗tabula rasa℗ in the writings of Blanchot, the undoing of traditions of narrative continuity and authority in the 1998 film, A vendre, and consequences of the power differential in a repressive Haiti as depicted in the film Vers le Sud (2005). Paradoxes emerge in several studies of works where victims may become perpetrators, or vice versa. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (177 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781435684867 1435684869 9789042024625 9042024623 9789401206303 9401206309 |