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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation, Government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samia Ourrad; Charles Bonn; Université Lumière (Lyon).; École doctorale Lettres, langues, linguistique, arts (Lyon). |
OCLC Number: | 800893318 |
Description: | 2 vol. (556 p; , 1006 p.) ; 30 cm. |
Responsibility: | Samia Ourrad ; sous la direction de Charles Bonn. |
Abstract:
The introduction of marginality and of the counterculture in the contemporary novel reveals a literature crisis at the end of the twentieth century and at the beginning of the millennium. The death of literature is often claimed as the fiction, narrative or identity crisis. There are increasing interferences between the highbrow Literature and “bad-literature”. Is this idea of End on a par with the extreme belief in the End of the World of Western and in the Death of the modernist thesis? Many contemporary novels explore extreme violence, sadism and cruelty to expose, with disappointment, a brutal and animal humanity. But are not these violence excess and overdeveloped marginality the expression of a radical disappointment or a strong writing that use acid language to refuse this new face of the world and of art? This writing, that elate journalistic critic, does it really change literature? Is it really new and subversive or is it popular literature that follows up the modernists experiments? The highbrow critic seems sceptic concerning its literarity; but the inscription in the “linguistic third-world” reveals the changes of the aims of literature. In fact, what is the function of literature in globalisation and mediacraty? Don't these novels reveal a deep evolution of literature and a critic of the traditional artistic criterions?
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