Violence in French and Francophone literature and film / edited by James Day.
Stories of violence — such as the account in Genesis of Cain’s jealousy and murder of Abel — have been with us since the time of the earliest recorded texts. Undeniably, the scourge of violence fascinates, confounds, and saddens. What are its uses in literature — its appeal, forms, and consequences?...
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| Superior document: | French literature series, 35 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | French literature series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film
- Justice des hommes, justice de Dieu, le retournement de la violence dans l’Histoire des martyrs de Jean Crespin et Simon Goulart / Mathilde Bernard
- Is It True or Is It Real? The Dilemma of Staging Rape in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron / Dora E. Polachek
- The Heroine’s Violent Compromise: Two Fairy Tales by Madame d’Aulnoy / Marcy Farrell
- L’indisable et l’obscène: Flaubert, Sade et la loi. À propos de Bouvard et Pécuchet / Florence Pellegrini
- The Narrator-Perpetrator and the Infectious Crime Scene: Emmanuel Carrère’s L’Adversaire / Esther N. Marion
- “Le prédateur, c’est moi” — l’écriture de la terre et la violence féminine dans l’oeuvre d’Ananda Devi / Julia Effertz
- Texte et pré(-)textes dans Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau / Véronique Maisier
- Tabula Rasa: Blanchot and the Terror / Milo Sweedler
- On Violent Judgment: Louis Guilloux’s Novel about Race, Justice, and the Segregated Army that Liberated France / Alice Kaplan
- Vers le Sud: de la violence, du pouvoir, du sexe et de l’argent / Thérèse De Raedt
- À quoi rêvent les loups? De l’animal et de l’humain selon Khadra• / Michèle Chossat
- Narrative Assault in Laetitia Masson’s À vendre / Mariah Devereux Herbeck
- Homeland Security: How the Community Protects the Individual from Violence in the Fiction and Films of Ousmane Sembène / Patrick L. Day.