Void and Voice Questioning Narrative Conventions in André Gide's Major First-Person Narratives / by Charles O'Keefe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Keefe, Charles, 1942-

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 251.

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures ; Number 251

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gide, Andre, 1869-1951. Symphonie pastorale.

Gide, Andre, 1869-1951. Porte etroite.

Gide, Andre, 1869-1951. Immoraliste.

Gide, Andre, 1869-1951--Criticism and interpretation.

First person narrative.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Dept. of Romance Languages, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.

Language Note:

Text in English with some notes and references in French.

Summary:

Charles O'Keefe provides a close reading of André Gide's three major first-person narratives -- L'Immoraliste , La Porte étroite , and La Symphonie pastorale -- through the lens of semiotics and narratology.

Contents:

Cover

VOID AND VOICE: QUESTIONING NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS IN ANDRÉ GIDE'S MAJOR FIRST-PERSON NARRATIVES

Title

Copyright

Dedication

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: L'Immoraliste

I. Narrative Form Touched by Excess

II. Questioning the Conventional Interpretation of the Framed Narrative in L'Immoraliste

A) Who Speaks?

B) Historical Context of Framed Narrative

C) New Critical Space

D) Paradigmatic Value of the Frame in L'Immoraliste

III. Contradictions Inherent in the Accessible Voice

A) Michel, An Echo of Ménalque

B) Michel, An Intertext of Rousseau

C) The Palimpsest

CHAPTER TWO: La Porte étroite

I. Jérôme as Editor

A) Jérôme the Misquoting "Author

B) Narrator vs. Editor

i) Narrative Unreliability

ii) The "Main" Text

C) Critical Yield

i) Editing and Jérôme's Personality

ii) Editorial Unreliability

D) Forme et Fond

II. Onomastics

A) Names of Secondary Characters

B) "Alissa" and "Jérôme

CHAPTER THREE: La Symphonie pastorale

I. How Do We Read a Lying Narrator?

A) The Critical Dawning

B) Accusing the Pastor

C) Justifying a Consideration of Narrative Lying

i) External Justifications

ii) Internal Justifications

D) Reading the Lie

E) Lying or Evangelizing?

F) The Hidden Agendas

G) Verbal and Erotic Anarchy

i) Narrative Disorder

ii) Limping Comparisons: Parabole&gt

Parole&gt

Parler

iii) The Erotic Parole

iv) The Destructive Parole

H) Semiosis and the Drama of Substitution

A) Onomastics in Gide's Text

i) Names and the Fatum of Writing

ii) Names and Subversion

B) Onomastics in the Pastor's Text

i) Naming and Point of View

ii) Naming as Assault

CONCLUSION

WORKS CITED

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-256).

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ISBN:

1-4696-4259-X

OCLC:

1080550566