A Certain Difficulty of Being provides an English-speaking audience with an account of some of the most interesting narrative problems which mark the development of the Quebec novel. Anthony Purdy uses the tools of contemporary narratology to go beyond the more formal studies of the sixties and seventies. Why, he asks, are the narrators of the novels he studies telling the stories they tell, and why do they experience such difficulty in doing so ?
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C843/.509714
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-qu
- ISBN
- 0773507701 9780773562561
- LCCN
- PQ3912
- LCCN Item number
- P87 1990eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xv, 176 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00200436 (OCoLC)243500897 (CaOOCEL)400667
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Foreword 10
- 1 "This is Not a Novel": The Rhetoric of Denial in Nineteenth-Century Quebec Novel Prefaces 20
- 2 Between Epic and Novel: The Crisis of Community in Félix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maître-draveur 36
- 3 On the Outside Looking In: The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion 58
- 4 Stopping the Kaleidoscope: Narrative Ambiguity in André Langevin's Poussiére sur la ville 79
- 5 The Politics of Incoherence: Narrative Failure and the Invention of History in Hubert Aquin's Prochain épisode 100
- 6 An Archaeology of the Self: Narrative Ventriloquism in Anne Hébert's Kamouraska 126
- Afterword 151
- Notes 156
- Bibliography 178
- Index 190
- A 190
- B 190
- C 191
- D 191
- E 191
- F 191
- G 191
- H 191
- I 192
- J 192
- K 192
- L 192
- M 192
- N 192
- O 193
- P 193
- R 193
- S 193
- T 193
- U 193
- W 193
