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Fin de millenaire French Fiction - The Aesthetics of Crisis (Hardcover)
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Fin de millenaire French Fiction - The Aesthetics of Crisis (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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The turn of the millennium in France coincided with a number of
tangible crises and apocalyptic discourses, and with the growth of
the mass media and global market, further generating and
manipulating crisis. In this original, wide-ranging but closely
analytical study, Cruickshank contextualizes and reads the work of
four influential writers of prose fiction --- Angot, Echenoz,
Houellebecq, and Redonnet --- teasing out each one's response to
this convergence. She suggests that the recurrent fictional and
cultural trope of the turning point has both aesthetic and critical
potential. Bringing together analyses spanning literature, thought,
and culture, she identifies and critiques the ways in which, on the
eve of the twenty-first century, different theoretical and
fictional approaches confront the manipulation of crisis
discourses. Drawing on a 'long twentieth century' of crisis
thinking, Cruickshank counters the perception that a postmodern
model of perpetual crisis is culturally dominant, and establishes
instead a new critical framework with which to respond to the fin
de millenaire aesthetics of crisis.
Through patient and illuminating readings, Cruickshank demonstrates
how prose fictions afford critical purchase on the global market,
and on French co-implication in it. She identifies how the four
contrasting writers reflect, perpetuate, and challenge the misogyny
and symbolic violence of late capitalism. Fin de millenaire prose
fiction emerges as both problematic and problematizing, bespeaking
the need to intervene in debates about the mass media,
neoliberalism, global market economics, and sexual and postcolonial
identities, while also demonstrating the enduring agency --
critical and creative -- of literature itself."
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