Frères Ennemis
Frères Ennemis ocuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While t...
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2021
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| author | Cloonan, William |
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| description | Frères Ennemis ocuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political contexts are introduced to provide a better understanding of the historical reality influencing the individual novels, a reality to which these novels are also responding. Chapters One through Five, covering a period from the mid-1870s to the end of the Cold War, discuss significant aspects of the often fraught relationship from the theoretical perspective of Roland Barthes’ theory of modern myth, described in his <i>Mythologies</i>. Barthes’ theory helps situate Franco-American tensions in a paradigmatic structure, while at the same time it is supple enough to allow for shifts and reversals within the paradigm. Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-298582025-07-30T15:42:38Z Frères Ennemis Cloonan, William Languages Literary studies general Cultural studies France The Americas English American English French thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general Frères Ennemis ocuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political contexts are introduced to provide a better understanding of the historical reality influencing the individual novels, a reality to which these novels are also responding. Chapters One through Five, covering a period from the mid-1870s to the end of the Cold War, discuss significant aspects of the often fraught relationship from the theoretical perspective of Roland Barthes’ theory of modern myth, described in his <i>Mythologies</i>. Barthes’ theory helps situate Franco-American tensions in a paradigmatic structure, while at the same time it is supple enough to allow for shifts and reversals within the paradigm. Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-01-22 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-16 03:00:26 2020-04-01T10:56:55Z 2018-10-02 book 1004080 OCN: 1100528971 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26002 978786949356 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29858 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26002/1/1004080.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26002/1/1004080.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26002/1/1004080.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26002/1/1004080.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26002/1/1004080.pdf Liverpool University Press 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941329.001.0001 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941329.001.0001 aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 978786949356 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Liverpool 102591 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books open access |
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