Rewriting ''Les Mysteres De Paris'' - The ''Mysteres Urbains'' and the Palimpsest

Informationen zum Autor Amy Wigelsworth completed her PhD at Durham University. She currently holds a part-time lectureship in French at the Sheffield Business School (Sheffield Hallam University), and also teaches French at the University of York. Klappentext Key works of popular fiction are often rewritten to capitalize on their success. Zusammenfassung Key works of popular fiction are often rewritten to capitalize on their success. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Mystery: Narrative and Theory 2 Reading Urban Space: The City as Text 3 The Palimpsest Trope 4 Americanizations 5 The Past is a Foreign City: Historicization 6 Future Perfect?: Utopia 7 La Suite à demain : Serializing the City 8 The City en scène : Theatre Adaptations 9 The ‘Carnivalesque’ and the Conservative: Parody as Palimpsest

Product details

• Authors: Amy Wigelsworth, Wigelsworth Amy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2016
• EAN: 9781909662360
• ISBN: 978-1-909662-36-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Legenda
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form