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Author Devereux Herbeck, Mariah, 1975-

Title Wandering women in French film and literature : a study of narrative drift / by Mariah Devereux Herbeck
Edition First edition
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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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
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Subject French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Women in literature.
Women in motion pictures.
Discourse analysis, Literary
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Gender identity.
Social Sciences
Literature
Sociology
Gender Identity
literary criticism.
social sciences.
sociology.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- French.
Literary studies: from c 1900 -- French.
Films, cinema -- French.
Gender studies: women -- French.
LITERARY CRITICISM/ European -- French.
Literature.
Discourse analysis, Literary
Discourse analysis, Narrative
French fiction
Women in literature
Women in motion pictures
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137339997
1137339993