{"product_id":"critical-essays-on-michel-butors-lemploi-du-temps-9781433121043","title":"Critical Essays on Michel Butors LEmploi du temps","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichel Butor, one of the earliest exponents of the French New Novel, is known for experimenting with narrative voice (the second-person narration in \u003ci\u003eLa Modification),\u003c\/i\u003e focalization (the changes in narrative perspective in \u003ci\u003eDegrés\u003c\/i\u003e), and the treatment of genres (\u003ci\u003eL'Emploi du temps\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eL'Emploi du temps\u003c\/i\u003e (1956) is a quintessential \u003ci\u003enouveau roman\u003c\/i\u003e for it is about a novel within a novel. In \u003ci\u003eCritical Essays on Michel Butor's\u003c\/i\u003e L'Emploi du temps, Sudarsan Rangarajan examines the different aspects of the novel from a postmodern perspective. Engaging contemporary theorists  Sartre, Foucault, de Man, and Prince among others  the essays encompass diverse areas: narratology, rhetoric, genre studies, existentialism, and postcolonialism. From the analysis of the beginnings and the function of narratees to the study of rhetoric, the journalistic discourse, the hybridization of the detective and the Gothic genres, the figure of the \u003ci\u003eflâneur,\u003c\/i\u003e and postcolonialis","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039554339159,"sku":"9781433121043","price":59.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433121043.jpg?v=1750944065","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-essays-on-michel-butors-lemploi-du-temps-9781433121043","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}