Description |
1 online resource (210 pages) |
Contents |
An Introduction to Narrative Drift -- 2. 'Qui suis-je?' -- 3. Impersonal Narrative: Fade to Lack: Detachment and Discontinuity -- 4. Personal Narrative: Taking it Personally: Men Telling the Stories of Wandering Women -- 5. Pluralized Narrative: More is Less? The Paradox of Pluralized Perspectives |
Summary |
How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why does it? As a means to answering these questions, "Wandering Women in French Film and Literature" examines the phenomenon of 'narrative drift' through in-depth analysis of twentieth-century novels and films. Combining feminist theories and structural narratology, Devereux Herbeck illustrates the ways in which evidence and/or admissions of doubt by narrative entities in works featuring wandering women disrupt conventions of continuity, coherence, and authority and thereby forces the story in new, unexpected directions |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Women in literature.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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Discourse analysis, Narrative.
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Social sciences.
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Sociology.
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Gender identity.
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Social Sciences
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Literature
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Sociology
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Gender Identity
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literary criticism.
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social sciences.
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sociology.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- French.
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -- French.
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Films, cinema -- French.
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Gender studies: women -- French.
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LITERARY CRITICISM/ European -- French.
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Literature.
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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Discourse analysis, Narrative
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French fiction
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Women in literature
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Women in motion pictures
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781137339997 |
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1137339993 |
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