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Beyond Return: Genre and Cultural Politics in Contemporary French Fiction

English

By (author): Lucas Hollister

In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), contemporary French literature is often said to embrace more traditional or readable novelistic forms. This rejection of the radical aesthetics of mid-century French literature, this rehabilitation of fictional forms that have been called sub-literary, regressive, or outdated, has been given a name: the return to the story. In Beyond Return, Lucas Hollister proposes new perspectives on the cultural politics of such fictions. Examining adventure novels, radical noir, postmodernist mysteries, war novels, and dystopian fictions, Hollister shows how authors like Jean Echenoz, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Jean Rouaud, and Antoine Volodine develop radically dissimilar notions of the aesthetics of return, and thus redraw in different manners the boundaries of the contemporary, the French, and the literary. In the process, Hollister argues for the need to move beyond the nostalgic, anti-modernist rhetoric of the return to the story in order to appreciate the potentialities of innovative contemporary genre fictions. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781802070057

About Lucas Hollister

Lucas Hollister is an Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature at Dartmouth College

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