Tournier Elementaire Hardback
by Jonathan Krell
Part of the Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures series
Hardback
Description
Michel Tournier, member of the Acadimie Goncourt and one of the most influential French writers of the post-Nouveau roman period, stresses the crucial interrelationship that exists between myth and literature.
It is the writer's duty, he states, to keep myths alive by continually renewing and transforming them, re-releasing them in an ever changing social context.
Written in French, this study considers the Tournier novel as the story of a voyage in a literal and figurative sense.
Jonathan Krell uses the term "elementary" to characterize this voyage through the universe of Tournier's imagination, which is dominated by the four primordial element&--earth, water, air, and fire.
Building on a foundation of Western culture's rudimentary myths, such as the ogre, twinship, and the Biblical stories of creation and the magi, Tournier performs a radical and disturbing transformation.
Professor Krell shows how the transformation is made.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, illustrations
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/1994
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- ISBN:9781557530561
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, illustrations
- Publisher:Purdue University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9781557530561
