Critical Essays on Michel Butor's "L'Emploi du temps"

Michel Butor, one of the earliest exponents of the French New Novel, is known for experimenting with narrative voice (the second-person narration in La Modification), focalization (the changes in narrative perspective in Degrés), and the treatment of genres (L'Emploi du temps).
L'Emploi du temps (1956) is a quintessential nouveau roman for it is about a novel within a novel. In Critical Essays on Michel Butor's L'Emploi du temps, Sudarsan Rangarajan examines the different aspects of the novel from a postmodern perspective. Engaging contemporary theorists - Sartre, Foucault, de Man, and Prince among others - the essays encompass diverse areas: narratology, rhetoric, genre studies, existentialism, and postcolonialism. From the analysis of the beginnings and the function of narratees to the study of rhetoric, the journalistic discourse, the hybridization of the detective and the Gothic genres, the figure of the flâneur, and postcolonialist concepts (the elite and the subaltern), the essays provide new insights into one of the greatest twentieth-century novels.

Info autore

Sudarsan Rangarajan received his PhD in French from Florida State University. Currently he is Associate Professor of French and Coordinator of the French program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His areas of interest include contemporary French and Québécois literatures and critical theory. His articles have appeared in The French Review, Neophilologus, Symposium and Dalhousie French Studies.

Riassunto

Engaging contemporary theorists - Sartre, Foucault, de Man, and Prince among others - the essays encompass diverse areas: narratology, rhetoric, genre studies, existentialism, and postcolonialism. This book examines the different aspects of the novel from a postmodern perspective.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sudarsan Rangarajan, Rangarajan Sudarsan
• Con la collaborazione di: Alvarez-Detrell Tamara (Editore della collana), Paulson Michael G. (Editore della collana)
• Editore: Peter Lang
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781433121043
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-2104-3
• Pagine: 173
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 15 mm x 225 mm
• Peso: 370 g
• Serie: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures; Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures; Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Prince, Essays, Michel, French, Foucault, Michel Butor, michael, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Alvarez, Tamara, Critical, Paulson, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Detrell, temps», Butor’s, Sudarsan, de Man, «L’Emploi, Rangarajan, Srtre, French New Novel