{"product_id":"isotopias-places-and-spaces-in-french-war-fiction-of-the-twentieth-and-twenty-first-centuries-9783034308373","title":"Isotopias: Places and Spaces in French War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis monograph is the first book to examine places and spaces in French war fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These places and spaces are presented as literary isotopias, or fictional «worlds», and analysed in a selective corpus of thirty-three novelists and forty-two examples of war fiction. The book identifies and classifies the various types of isotopia that appear in fiction in the form of scenes, images or literary microcosms. The author establishes four isotopic modes – possession, dispossession or loss, alienation, and repossession – by which means the isotopias are expressed. The spaces considered include territorial demands, gains, possessions, losses and national spaces, as well as internal mental spaces. \u003cbr\u003e The corpus of novels selected for this project covers a wide variety of examples of fictional worlds: the spiritual, the marginal, the regional, the ideological, the psychological, the erotic, the ecological and the political. The methods of analysis identify these worlds, demonstrate both how they function in relation to the characters in the novels and how they affect the reader, and provide further illumination on the intentions, achievements and ideologies of the characters and of the novelists concerned. One of the findings of the study is that the greater the stress of war and conflict the more authors and characters tend to seek refuge in their imaginary (isotopic) worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«With its close readings of a wide range of fictions of conflict, the monograph offers valuable insights into the imaginative and creative processes involved in their writing.»\u003cbr\u003e (Angela Kimyongür, French Studies 71\/2 2017)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  «Peter Tame's book […] is a major work of scholarship.»\u003cbr\u003e  (John Fletcher, Journal of European Studies 45(4) 2015)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Roland Dorgelès, \u003ci\u003eLes Croix de bois \u003c\/i\u003e(1919): Memotopia of martyrdom – Raymond Radiguet, \u003ci\u003eLe Diable au corps \u003c\/i\u003e(1923): Egotopia and erotopia – André Chamson, \u003ci\u003eRoux le bandit \u003c\/i\u003e(1925): Rurotopia and sacrotopia in the Cévennes – Jules Romains, \u003ci\u003ePrélude à Verdun \u003c\/i\u003e(1937) and \u003ci\u003eVerdun \u003c\/i\u003e(1938): \u003ci\u003eLes Hommes de bonne volonté \u003c\/i\u003e(1932-1947) – Jean Giraudoux, \u003ci\u003eSiegfried et le Limousin \u003c\/i\u003e(1922): Amnesotopia – The effect of war on individual memory in peacetime – André Chamson, \u003ci\u003eL’Année des vaincus \u003c\/i\u003e(1934): A Franco-German utopia\/dystopia? – André Malraux, \u003ci\u003eL’Espoir \u003c\/i\u003e(1937): The Spanish Civil War, as a preliminary to the Second World War – Robert Brasillach, \u003ci\u003eLes Sept Couleurs \u003c\/i\u003e(1939): A rainbow too far – European Fascism and a divided France – On the margins: Julien Gracq, \u003ci\u003eUn Balcon en forêt \u003c\/i\u003e(1958) – Oneirotopia in conflict and wartime – France violated: Irène Némirovsky, \u003ci\u003eSuite française \u003c\/i\u003e([1941\/1942] 2004) – The labyrinth of defeat: Claude Simon, \u003ci\u003eLa Route des Flandres \u003c\/i\u003e(1960) – The rape of eastern Europe: Jonathan Littell, \u003ci\u003eLes Bienveillantes \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) – the Nazi occupation in Soviet Russia, France, Hungary, Poland – Sweet Occupation? \u003ci\u003eSuite française\u003c\/i\u003e Part II «Dolce» – Irène Némirovsky’s novel on the German occupation of France – East and West: Political isotopias in André Malraux’s \u003ci\u003eLes Noyers de l’Altenburg \u003c\/i\u003e(1943) – The dark, dystopian night-time of the soul: André Chamson’s \u003ci\u003eLe Puits des miracles \u003c\/i\u003e(1945) – The conquest of a contested colonial space revisited: Robert Brasillach’s \u003ci\u003eLa Conquérante \u003c\/i\u003e(1943) – Jean Dutourd, \u003ci\u003eAu bon beurre \u003c\/i\u003e(1952): A ‘cornutopia’ – Profiteering in Occupied France – France 1945: A space under reconstruction in Marcel Aymé’s \u003ci\u003eUranus \u003c\/i\u003e(1948) – Ecotopia in Romain Gary’s \u003ci\u003eLes Racines du ciel \u003c\/i\u003e(1956) – Isotopias in invented autobiography: Four novels on the Occupation by Patrick Modiano.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043618193751,"sku":"9783034308373","price":49.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034308373.jpg?v=1750958895","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/isotopias-places-and-spaces-in-french-war-fiction-of-the-twentieth-and-twenty-first-centuries-9783034308373","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}