Thresholds of Meaning: Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative

by Jean H. Duffy

Thresholds of Meaning examines contemporary French narrative and explores two related issues: the centrality within recent French fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality; and the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the close analysis of novels and r cits by Pierre Bergounioux, Fran ois Bon, Marie Darrieussecq, H l ne Lenoir, Laurent Mauvignier and Jean...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846316669
• ISBN13: 9781846316661
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"