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Michel Tournier S Metaphysical Fictions
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Author : Susan Petit
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Michel Tournier S Metaphysical Fictions written by Susan Petit and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.
Michel Tournier La Goutte D Or
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Author : Michael Worton
language : en
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Release Date : 1992
Michel Tournier La Goutte D Or written by Michael Worton and has been published by Hyperion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
Michel Tournier And The Metaphor Of Fiction
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Author : Jean-Pierre Boulé
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Michel Tournier And The Metaphor Of Fiction written by Jean-Pierre Boulé and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’.
Michel Tournier Le Coq De Bruy Re
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Author : W. D. Redfern
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1996
Michel Tournier Le Coq De Bruy Re written by W. D. Redfern and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a study of Michel Tournier's collection of short stories, Le Coq de bruyere, but it is also much more. Author Walter Redfern sees the stories as a microcosm of the whole fictional universe of Tournier, widely regarded as France's premier living writer.
Michel Tournier
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Author : Mairi Maclean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Michel Tournier written by Mairi Maclean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Interpersonal relations in literature categories.
Michel Tournier Philosophy And Fiction
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Author : Colin Davis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1988
Michel Tournier Philosophy And Fiction written by Colin Davis and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This first full-length study of the popular French novelist shows that his fiction cannot be understood simply as a literary transposition of philosophical ideas, and that, despite his opposition to the New Novel, he shares its assumptions about the subversive role of literature. Davis combines analysis of the major novels with discussions of Tournier's theory of reading, his attitudes toward language, and his preoccupation with the reconciliation of opposites.
The Four Wise Men
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Author : Michel Tournier
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1997-09-24
The Four Wise Men written by Michel Tournier and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-24 with Fiction categories.
"This may be more than a novel of high achievement, in fact; it may be the best work so far of a truly daring writer."—America Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem—and audaciously imagines a fourth, "the eternal latecomer"' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a salt mine. There, this fourth wise man learns the recipe from a fellow prisoner, and learns of the existence and meaning of Jesus.
The Fetishist
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Author : Michel Tournier
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1984
The Fetishist written by Michel Tournier and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Fiction categories.
A collection of fourteen eerie tales that highlight mankind's secret yearnings and sense of destiny.
The Postmodern Mythology Of Michel Tournier
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Author : Melissa Panek
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-03-15
The Postmodern Mythology Of Michel Tournier written by Melissa Panek and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Michel Tournier defines the supreme mission of a writer to be the creation of a mythology which allows for interaction with his readers, who seem to be losing their critical faculties in our contemporary, postmodern world dominated by consumption and dizzying technological advances. Our contemporary society has changed due to the end of the modern era with its reigning ideologies. Collapsing after the atrocities of the Second World War, Modernity and the artistic and literary reactions referred to as modernism, have likewise been transformed. Myth continues to represent the collectivity of human existence, yet, in the short stories and novels of Michel Tournier, myth represents the collapse of the all-encompassing ideologies inherent to the Modern era. The grand narratives of Modernity such as Christianity and Man’s reason have been deconstructed in the postmodern era. The mythology of Michel Tournier expresses these trends towards the dissolution of Modernity and creates individual, mini narratives which emphasize the particularity of individual existence. Tournier takes established mythical models rooted in Christianity, fables and legends of Western Civilization and re-contextualizes them. Through a semiotic reworking of core binary pairs of a myth, Tournier creates a third-order level of representation which modifies the mythical model. The works of le Roi des Aulnes, Gilles et Jeanne, and Vendredi are illustrious of this third-order level of signification. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, the structural make-up of myth transforms established meanings according to the dominant cultural code. Barthes’ semiological study of myth reveals the levels of representation through which myth creates meaning. Myth builds upon the denotative first-order level of language and through a connotative process, creates a second-order level. This connotative process does not end on this second-order, for in the writings of Tournier, this semiological process is continued to a third-order which re-contextualizes the myth again. Tournier adapts myth to the unique traits of the postmodern era including deconstruction and playfulness by allowing the reader to provide the context of the story. As such we, the reader, take the place as author of our own individual mythology.
Michel Tournier
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Author : Michael Worton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-19
Michel Tournier written by Michael Worton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier.