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Fin de Millénaire French Fiction: The Aesthetics of Crisis

Fin de Millénaire French Fiction: The Aesthetics of Crisis

          
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The turn of the millennium in France coincided with a number of tangible crises and apocalyptic discourses, and with the growth of the mass media and global market, further generating and manipulating crisis. In this original, wide-ranging but closely analytical study, Cruickshank contextualizes and reads the work of four influential writers of prose fiction --- Angot, Echenoz, Houellebecq, and Redonnet --- teasing out each one's response to this convergence. She suggests that the recurrent fictional and cultural trope of the turning point has both aesthetic and critical potential. Bringing together analyses spanning literature, thought, and culture, she identifies and critiques the ways in which, on the eve of the twenty-first century, different theoretical and fictional approaches confront the manipulation of crisis discourses. Drawing on a 'long twentieth century' of crisis thinking, Cruickshank counters the perception that a postmodern model of perpetual crisis is culturally dominant, and establishes instead a new critical framework with which to respond to the fin de millénaire aesthetics of crisis.

Through patient and illuminating readings, Cruickshank demonstrates how prose fictions afford critical purchase on the global market, and on French co-implication in it. She identifies how the four contrasting writers reflect, perpetuate, and challenge the misogyny and symbolic violence of late capitalism. Fin de millénaire prose fiction emerges as both problematic and problematizing, bespeaking the need to intervene in debates about the mass media, neoliberalism, global market economics, and sexual and postcolonial identities, while also demonstrating the enduring agency -- critical and creative -- of literature itself.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199571758
  • Publisher: OUP UK
  • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK
  • Depth: 0.1875
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 540 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199571759
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Series Title: Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs
  • Sub Title: The Aesthetics of Crisis
  • Width: 157 mm


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