Illegitimacy in Guy de Maupassant and André Gide
Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4438-6698-9
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Bachelors and bastards are two principal players in the representation of illegitimacy in Maupassant and Gide, but this study considers the theme of illegitimacy as extended beyond simple questions of legitimate versus illegitimate children. The male bastard is only one of the "Counterfeit" characters examined in these authors' fictional texts. This book is divided into three parts which consider specific thematic elements of their "bastard narratives". Part One frames the representation in fiction of bachelor figures and how they contribute to, or the roles they play in, instances of illegitimacy. Part Two springs from and develops the metaphor of the "counterfeit coin," whether represented by a bastard son, an affected schoolboy, a false priest, or a pretentious littérateur. Part Three explains the concept of "nomadic masculine" practices; such practices include nomadic styles of masculinity development as well as the bastard's nomadism.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen