Beyond Return - Genre and Cultural Politics in Contemporary French Fiction

Zusammenfassung In Beyond Return! Lucas Hollister examines the political orientations of fictions which 'return' to forms that have often been considered sub-literary! regressive! outdated or decadent! and suggests new ways of reading contemporary adventure novels! radical noir novels! postmodernist mysteries! war novels and dystopian fictions.

Summary

In Beyond Return, Lucas Hollister examines the political orientations of fictions which ‘return’ to forms that have often been considered sub-literary, regressive, outdated or decadent, and suggests new ways of reading contemporary adventure novels, radical noir novels, postmodernist mysteries, war novels and dystopian fictions.

Product details

• Authors: Lucas Hollister
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781786942180
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-218-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies