The War Against Cliché de Martin Amis : l’essai critique comme embrassement amoureux de la littérature

The War Against Cliché de Martin Amis : l’essai critique comme embrassement amoureux de la littérature

What kind of relation does the literary essay establish with the literary text? Does it comment on it, describe it, analyse it? I would like to argue that Martin Amis’s essays bear witness to the ‘eventmental’ quality of the encounter between Amis as reader and the literary texts he appreciates. In...

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Main Author: Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2010-06-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Subjects:
M. Amis
criticism
essay
event
fidelity
listening
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3208
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The War Against Cliché de Martin Amis : l’essai critique comme embrassement amoureux de la littérature
Études Britanniques Contemporaines
M. Amis
criticism
essay
event
fidelity
listening
author_facet Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès
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title The War Against Cliché de Martin Amis : l’essai critique comme embrassement amoureux de la littérature
title_short The War Against Cliché de Martin Amis : l’essai critique comme embrassement amoureux de la littérature
title_full The War Against Cliché de Martin Amis : l’essai critique comme embrassement amoureux de la littérature
title_fullStr The War Against Cliché de Martin Amis : l’essai critique comme embrassement amoureux de la littérature
title_full_unstemmed The War Against Cliché de Martin Amis : l’essai critique comme embrassement amoureux de la littérature
title_sort war against cliché de martin amis : l’essai critique comme embrassement amoureux de la littérature
publisher Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
series Études Britanniques Contemporaines
issn 1168-4917
2271-5444
publishDate 2010-06-01
description What kind of relation does the literary essay establish with the literary text? Does it comment on it, describe it, analyse it? I would like to argue that Martin Amis’s essays bear witness to the ‘eventmental’ quality of the encounter between Amis as reader and the literary texts he appreciates. In being faithful to the process of amorous subjectification which the event of the readerly encounter initiates, Amis’s writing resonates with the specific accents of the literary works it takes into consideration.
topic M. Amis
criticism
essay
event
fidelity
listening
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