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This study focuses on the return of the narrative as applied by literary historians. Through the 1980s, criticism on the hermetic nature of many postmodern texts grew louder and louder: novelists expressed the wish to restore the bonds between the reader and the texts as well as between the texts and the extra-literary reality. Many fiction writers have grown tired of formalism and restore the conventions of realism, though not using them in a passive manner. Literary historians dealing with the post-postmodern or late postmodern European novel agree that conventional techniques are being adopted in new manners, and that all 20th century tendencies that criticized and tried to overcome 19th century realism do leave their traces on the contemporary novel: it might be a matter of hybrid forms combining realism and postmodernism. Cette étude porte sur la notion, souvent avancée par des commentateurs du roman contemporain, du retour à la narration. Le romancier contemporain s’opposerait à l’hermétisme du roman postmoderne et désirerait rétablir le lien entre le texte et son lecteur et entre la littérature et la réalité extralittéraire. Les écrivains se lassent du formalisme et reprennent les conventions du réalisme sans toutefois les appliquer passivement ; l’auteur actuel n’envisage pas de restaurer une forme traditionnelle, mais de réécrire au second degré certains modèles romanesques afin de mieux représenter le monde contemporain. Le roman contemporain serait donc une forme hybride qui combine des tendances réalistes et postmodernes.

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Contents/Contenu : Suze van der Poll/Sabine van Wesemael: The Return of the Narrative? An introduction – Lucas Hollister : Jean Echenoz et le retour à la narration : un phénomène paratextuel? – Johannes Franzen: Pre-dug trenches? Debates about Realism vs. Postmodernism in contemporary Anglophone literature: Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith – Enrico Bolzoni : Sebastiano Vassalli : Vers le retour du roman historique – Dominique Massonnaud : L’Art français de la Guerre : une fresque en morceaux? – Isabelle Bernard : Penser et réécrire l’Histoire : un (nouveau) défi pour le roman contemporain. Sur Peste & Choléra de Patrick Deville et 14 de Jean Echenoz – Robin Hauenstein: Re-visiting the Empire: Christoph Ransmayr’s The Terrors of Ice and Darkness. A paradigmatic example of German historiographic metafiction – Tobias Lambrecht: Is the «return of the narrative» the departure from postmodernism? Christian Kracht’s parahistorical novel Imperium between realist and postmodernist storytelling techniques – Alexandra Campana: Politics of Contemporary Narration. Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005) as a Postmodern Realistic Novel – Brindusa Nicolaescu: A Return of the Narrative in The Lair by Norman Manea – Marjolein Corjanus: Sincerity in Recent Second World War Narrative. Authorial ethos, postmemory and re-enactment in the writings of Mendelsohn, Binet, Munoz Molina and Lewinsky – Serena Cello : Dit violent de Mohamed Razane : le retour à la narration à travers l’engagement ? – Suze van der Poll: Life narrative. Karl Ove Knausgård’s Min Kamp - a move from fiction to reality? – Geir Uvslokk : « La menace à la lisière de la fiction » : trois personnages périphériques dans l’œuvre de Patrick Modiano – Marjolein van Tooren : « Ecrire la fable du réel ». Les Belles Âmes de Lydie Salvayre comme poétique d’un nouveau réalisme – Sabine van Wesemael : Michel Houellebecq : un auteur post-postmoderne ?

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Sabine van Wesemael is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam where she teaches European literature. She has published several studies on the contemporary French novel, more precisely on the novels written by Michel Houellebecq. Sabine van Wesemael est maitre de conferences a l'Universite d'Amsterdam ou elle enseigne la litterature europeenne. Elle a publie des etudes sur le roman francais contemporain, plus particulierement sur l'/uvre de Michel Houellebecq. Suze van der Poll is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam where she teaches European literature. Her main fields of research and publication are modern and 19th century Scandinavian literature as well as late-postmodern Norwegian literature. Suze van der Poll est maitre de conferences a l'Universite d'Amsterdam ou elle enseigne la litterature europeenne. Ses activites de recherche et de publication se concentrent sur la litterature scandinave moderne et du XIXe siecle ainsi que sur la litterature norvegienne du post-modernisme tardif.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783631652107
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang AG
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 331 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3631652100
  • Publisher Date: 29 Dec 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 226
  • Width: 148 mm


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