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Thresholds of Meaning - Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative (Hardcover)
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Thresholds of Meaning - Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 18
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Thresholds of Meaning examines contemporary French narrative and
explores two related issues: the centrality within recent French
fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and
liminality; and the thematic continuity which links this work with
its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the close
analysis of novels and recits by Pierre Bergounioux, Francois Bon,
Marie Darrieussecq, Helene Lenoir, Laurent Mauvignier and Jean
Rouaud, Duffy demonstrates the ways in which contemporary
narrative, while capitalising on the formal lessons of the nouveau
roman and drawing upon a shared repertoire of motifs and themes,
engages with the complex processes by which meaning is produced in
the referential world and, in particular, with the rituals and
codes that social man brings into play in order to negotiate the
various stages of the human life-cycle. By the application of
concepts and models derived from ritual theory and from visual
analysis, Thresholds of Meaning situates itself at the intersection
of the developing field of literature and anthropology studies and
research into word and image.
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