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The Relevance Of The Carnivalesque In The Québec Novel, Maroussia Ahmed
The Relevance Of The Carnivalesque In The Québec Novel, Maroussia Ahmed
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The Bakhtinian concept of space is topological rather than topographic, and encompasses the cosmic, the social and the corporeal; its function in the Québec novel consists in debasing the hierarchical verticality of Lent and of the "official feast." As Carnival is an anti-law,"law" in the Québec novel will be defined as the chronotope of the sacred space (the land or "terre" of Québec) in the genre known as the "novel of the land" ("le roman de Ia terre"). Until the Second World War, this chronotope transforms an Augustinian political view of the civitas dei into literary proselytism, via the ideology …
At The Outer Limits Of Language: Mallarmé'S Un Coup De Dés And Huidobro's Altazor, Nancy B. Mandlove
At The Outer Limits Of Language: Mallarmé'S Un Coup De Dés And Huidobro's Altazor, Nancy B. Mandlove
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
While it is quite possible that Un Coup de dés served Huidobro directly as a formal, thematic and linguistic model for Altazor, the essential connection between the two poems lies in a parallel effort to repeat the act of the original Creation. To this end, both rely on basic archetypal patterns, resulting in parallel thematic development. These archetypal patterns are created not only themati-cally, but also linguistically. The fall, destruction and resurrection of Adam and Orpheus is simultaneously the fall, destruction and resurrection of language. Huidobro has taken up the challenge of Mallarmé to spin out of nothingness the …
Space And Salvation In Colette's Chéri And La Fin De Chéri, Ann Leone Philbrick
Space And Salvation In Colette's Chéri And La Fin De Chéri, Ann Leone Philbrick
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Colette's critics often seem to dismiss all but her autobiographical creatures as whimsical and inarticulate. Her characters are frequently less eloquent than the spaces they create and inhabit; this observation offers an approach to Chéri and La Fin de Chéri that invites us to read them as two of Colette's most ambitious and authentic works. Here are stories of compromises with the containers of one's life and identity: streets, salons, boudoirs, and, ultimately, the body. Indeed, the self and its containers function symbiotically. Chéri makes no effort to direct this relationship, and kills himself when the world finally seems inscrutable …
Circumscription: Proust's The Captive And The Problem Of Other Minds, Carol De Dobay Rifelj
Circumscription: Proust's The Captive And The Problem Of Other Minds, Carol De Dobay Rifelj
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Central to Proust's Remembrance as a whole and to The Captive in particular is Marcel's attempt to discover what other people think and feel. But, as reading the work in the light of modern analytic philosophy shows, his efforts are thwarted by the deceptions of others and by his own irreconcilable views. The other is radically inaccessible, yet the object of our search; the self is a stable entity, yet multiple, changing, and a fiction constituted by language; language is communication, yet the source of error. These are the problems which confront philosophy and literature when they try to come …
The Doubles In Julien Gracq's Au Château D'Argol, Andrée Douchin-Shahin
The Doubles In Julien Gracq's Au Château D'Argol, Andrée Douchin-Shahin
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In Julien Gracq's Au Château d'Argol, the resolution of a psychological double (as in the Doppelgänger novels) opens onto a metaphysical quest. In the process, doubling becomes so compounded that the narrative resembles a kaleidoscopic pattern of multiple reflections. Gracq's personal search into the nature of man is set against other hypotheses and formulations such as philosophical systems, religion, psychoanalysis, literature, music, etc. In the novel, man's dualism is viewed as an inescapable fact. However, even though the dogma of the Redemption is rejected, man, in spite of his "flaw," is held responsible for the acts he wills.