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- Author: Ruth Cruickshank
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN-10: 0199571759
- ISBN-13: 9780199571758
- Format: 15.8 x 23.6 x 2.5 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Ruth Cruickshank
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN-10: 0199571759
- ISBN-13: 9780199571758
- Format: 15.8 x 23.6 x 2.5 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
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.
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