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Le voyage excentrique : jeux textuels et paratextuels dans l'anti-récit de voyage, 1760-1850 / Susan Pickford.

Van Pelt Library PQ265 .P53 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pickford, Susan, author.
Series:
Métamorphoses du livre
Métamorphoses du livre, 1775-7053
Language:
French
Subjects (All):
French literature--18th century--History and criticism.
French literature.
French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
French literature--Themes, motives.
Travel in literature.
Eccentric literature--History and criticism.
Eccentric literature.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Lyon : ENS Éditions : Institut d'histoire du livre, 2018.
Summary:
The period 1760-1850 sees the emergence, then the decline, of a new subgenre: the eccentric travel narrative. These travels in a room, in my pockets, in zigzag ... play both with the narratological codes of the classic trip and with its setting in book, deploying paratextual and typographic extravagances that problematize the place of the book in a communication circuit increasingly dominated by the industrial paradigm. If Laurence Sterne, who launches this fashion with Tristram Shandy and the Sentimental Journey, claims his literary fame, for his imitators Xavier de Maistre and Rodolphe Töpffer it is a question of maintaining their auto-marginalization in an auctorial field more and more under the sign of the "industrial literature" (Sainte-Beuve).
Notes:
"La période 1760-1850 voit l'émergence, puis le déclin d'un sous-genre nouveau : le récit de voyage excentrique. Ces voyages dans une chambre, dans mes poches, en zigzag... jouent tant avec les codes narratologiques du voyage classique qu'avec sa mise en livre, déployant notamment des extravagances paratextuelles et typographiques qui problématisent la place de l'ouvrage dans un circuit de communication de plus en plus dominé par le paradigme industriel. Si Laurence Sterne, qui lance cette mode avec Tristram Shandy et le Voyage sentimental, revendique sa célébrité littéraire, pour ses imitateurs Xavier de Maistre et Rodolphe Töpffer il s'agit de maintenir leur automarginalisation dans un champ auctorial de plus en plus sous le signe de la « littérature industrielle » (Sainte-Beuve)"--Page [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index.
ISBN:
9791036200021
OCLC:
1032364273

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