Void and voice : questioning narrative conventions in André Gide's major first-person narratives /

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Author / Creator:O'Keefe, Charles, 1942-
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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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675411
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ISBN:9781469642598
146964259X
0807892556
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-256).
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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.
Other form:Print version: O'Keefe, Charles, 1942- Void and voice. Chapel Hill : Dept. of Romance Languages, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996