Beschreibung
Michel Butor, one of the earliest exponents of the French New Novel, is known for experimenting with narrative voice (the second-person narration in
focalization (the changes in narrative perspective in
), and the treatment of genres (
).
(1956) is a quintessential
for it is about a novel within a novel. In
L’Emploi du temps, Sudarsan Rangarajan examines the different aspects of the novel from a postmodern perspective. Engaging contemporary theorists – Sartre, Foucault, de Man, and Prince among others – the essays encompass diverse areas: narratology, rhetoric, genre studies, existentialism, and postcolonialism. From the analysis of the beginnings and the function of narratees to the study of rhetoric, the journalistic discourse, the hybridization of the detective and the Gothic genres, the figure of the
and postcolonialist concepts (the elite and the subaltern), the essays provide new insights into one of the greatest twentieth-century novels.
Autorenportrait
Sudarsan Rangarajan received his PhD in French from Florida State University. Currently he is Associate Professor of French and Coordinator of the French program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His areas of interest include contemporary French and Québécois literatures and critical theory. His articles have appeared in
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