Void and Voice

Questioning Narrative Conventions in André Gide's Major First-Person Narratives

By:

Charles O'Keefe

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Paperback / softback

Series:

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

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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.

Release date Australia

January 30th, 1996

Author

Charles O'Keefe

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

260

Series

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780807892558

Product ID

13318023

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