Degenerative Realism : : Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France / / Christy Wampole.

A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Literature Now
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: What Is Degenerative Realism?
  • 1. Demography and Survival in Twenty- First- Century France
  • 2. Endarkenment from the Minitel to the Internet
  • 3. Real- Time Realism, Part 1: Journalistic Immediacy
  • 4. Real- Time Realism, Part 2: Le roman post- pamphlétaire
  • Conclusion. Novel as Nation: Forms of Parallel Decay
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX