Pathos, poetry and politics in Michel Houellebecq's fiction

Pathos, poetry and politics in Michel Houellebecq's fiction /

"In Pathos, Poetry and Politics in Michel Houellebecq's fiction, Russell Williams examines the literary style of France's most notorious novelist. Houellebecq is frequently the focus of debate for his provocative comments about Islam and the decline of Western civilisation. This book...

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Main Author: Williams, Russell, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, 2020
Series:Faux titre, volume 437
Subjects:
Houellebecq, Michel > Criticism and interpretation.
Houellebecq, Michel > Literary style.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Introduction: Reading Michel Houellebecq
  • 1 Critical Reception
  • 2 Houellebecq's Style
  • 3 Intertextuality
  • 4 Houellebecq and the Canon
  • 5 Houellebecq and Contemporary Literature
  • 6 Houellebecquian Sex
  • 7 Houellebecq and Ideas
  • 1 Houellebecq on Writing: 'La participation émotive'
  • 1 Prose, Poetry and the 'Pathétique'
  • 2 Houellebecq on Cohen
  • 3 Houellebecq on Literature
  • 4 Houellebecq's Emotional Spectrum
  • 5 The 'Pathétique' and the 'Clinique'
  • 2 Houellebecq's 'méthode d'attaque brutale': from Poetry to Prose
  • 1 Writing as 'méthode d'attaque brutale': from Lovecraft to Houellebecq
  • 2 'Le Baudelaire des supermarchés'
  • 3 The 'Clinique' in Houellebecq's Poems
  • 4 The Ambiguous 'Sentiment Océanique'
  • 5 Themes, Images and Poetic Technique in Extension du domaine de la lutte
  • 6 Houellebecq and Bathos
  • 7 Extension du domaine de la lutte's Poetic Prose
  • 3 The 'Poétique' and the 'Pathétique' in Houellebecq's Novels
  • 1 Poetry in Houellebecq's Prose: Les Particules élémentaires
  • 2 Houellebecq and Pop Songs
  • 3 Houellebecq's Pathetic Prose
  • 4 'Alternativement abrupte et douce'
  • 5 Alexandrines
  • 6 La Possibilité d'une île and Decomposition
  • 7 Poetic Images in Houellebecq's Prose
  • 8 Houellebecq's 'refrains typiques'
  • 4 The Poetics and Politics of Genre
  • 1 The roman policier: 'une phrase sans sujet'
  • 2 Houellebecq's Novels: 'la peur sentie comme atmosphère'
  • 3 Pastiche of the roman policier?
  • 4 Houellebecq and Agatha Christie
  • 5 La Carte et le territoire or 'Who Killed Michel Houellebecq?'
  • 6 Houellebecq and roman policier Style
  • 7 Dissatisfying Narrative Closure
  • 8 Houellebecq and Genre Fiction
  • 9 Uncreative Writing
  • 5 Narrative Perspective in Houellebecq: 'qui parle?' and 'qui voit?'
  • 1 Genette on Narrative Focalization
  • 2 Extension du domaine de la lutte: Challenging the Narrative 'je'
  • 3 Les Particules élémentaires: an Ambiguous Narrative Perspective
  • 4 Plateforme: Aphorisms, Provocation, Ambiguous Framing
  • 5 La Possibilité d'une île: Provocative Proximity
  • 6 La Carte et le territoire
  • a Partial Portrait of the Author as an Old Man?
  • 7 Soumission
  • a 'Dog Whistle' Novel?
  • Conclusion: 'Quelque chose en moi'
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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