Void and voice : questioning narrative conventions in André Gide's major first-person narratives /
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| Author / Creator: | O'Keefe, Charles, 1942- |
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : Dept. of Romance Languages, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 251 North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 251. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675411 |
| Summary: | Charles O'Keefe provides a close reading of Andre Gide's three major first-person narratives-- L'Immoraliste , La Porte etroite , and La Symphonie pastorale --through the lens of semiotics and narratology. O'Keefe argues that Gide is in many ways a 'pre-postmodernist' who uses narrative strategies to show that there is a crucial connection between telling a story and telling the self. In particular, O'Keefe demonstrates the paradoxical fact that the tales simultaneously subvert and generate the illusion of their own mimetic presence. O'Keefe's study, with its judicious use of deconstructionist techniques, offers new insights into the literary and philosophical implications of Gide's fiction. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-256). |
| ISBN: | 9781469642598 146964259X 0807892556 9780807892558 |