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The livres-souvenirs of Colette : genre and the telling of time / Anne Freadman.
LIBRA PQ2605.O28 Z67 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freadman, Anne, 1944-
- Series:
- Research monographs in French studies ; 33.
- Research monographs in French studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colette, 1873-1954--Themes, motives.
- Colette.
- Colette, 1873-1954.
- Time in literature.
- Autobiography.
- Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 178 pages ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Modern Humanities Research Association : Maney Pub., 2012.
- Summary:
- Throughout her career, Colette experimented with genre for the purposes of telling stories of her life. The books that resulted, known collectively as her 'livres-souvenirs', are far from being autobiographies in the customary sense. By addressing the need to reconsider the generic issues surrounding autobiogrphical story-telling, Anne Freadman's study brings the richnesss of 'the genre question's to the fore, shedding a fresh light on this much-loved body of work.
- From the vignettes of La Maison de Claudine to the notebooks of L'étoile vesper and Le Fanal blen, from stories of losing to stories of collecting, Colette's memory books take different narrative forms and explore the passing of time in different ways. This book investigates. Colette's variegated generic choices as so many ways of 'telling time'.
- Research Monographs in French Studies form a separate series within the Legenda programme and are selected and edited by the Society for French Studies. The series seeks to publish the best new work in all areas of the literaure, thought, theory, culture, film and language of the French speaking world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 'Mon sosie' 20
- 2 The Life and Times of Colette Willy: Mes Apprentissages Bridge 54
- Second subject: Collecting Time
- 3 The Storyteller: La Maison de Claudine 58
- 4 A Family Album: Sido 87
- 5 The Art of Ending: L'Étoile Vesper and Le Fanal bleu 111.
- Notes:
- Legenda.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-173) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781906540937
- 1906540934
- OCLC:
- 820529853
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