The Livres-Souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time

ISBN-13: 9780367604424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 190 str.

Anne Freadman

Opis

This book investigates Colette's variegated generic choices as so many ways of 'telling time'. It presents an argument that develops through a five-part sequence, named in homage to the sonata form: 'exposition', 'first subject', 'bridge', 'second subject' and 'recapitulation'.

Spis treści

Part I: First subject: Colette and Autobiography 1. Mon sosie' 2. The Life and Times of Colette Willy: Mes Apprentissages Part II: Second subject: Collecting Time 3. The Storyteller: La Maison de Claudine 4. A Family Album: Sido 5. The Art of Ending: L’Étoile Vesper and Le Fanal bleu 6. Recapitulation: Reading 'Colette' in La Naissance du jour

O autorze

Anne Freadman