A01=Charles O'Keefe
Author_Charles O'Keefe
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L'Immoraliste
La Porte Etroite
La Symphonie pastorale
narratology
semiotics
Product details
- ISBN 9780807892558
- Weight: 525g
- Dimensions: 150 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 1996
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Charles O'Keefe provides a close reading of Andre Gide's three major first-person narratives--L'Immoraliste, La Porte Etroite, and La Symphonie pastorale--through the lens of semiotics and narratology. O'Keefe argues that Gide is in many ways a 'pre-postmodernist' who uses narrative strategies to show that there is a crucial connection between telling a story and telling the self. In particular, O'Keefe demonstrates the paradoxical fact that the tales simultaneously subvert and generate the illusion of their own mimetic presence. O'Keefe's study, with its judicious use of deconstructionist techniques, offers new insights into the literary and philosophical implications of Gide's fiction.
