Tournier's Theoretical Pretext Works Like a Charm
By playing on the expectations that a reader would have for a Bildungsroman , Tournier puts generic parameters and received ideas into question. In La Goutte d'or , he writes a text in which thematic considerations become so over-determined that they give way to a set of theoretical considera...
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New Prairie Press
1988-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol12/iss2/6 |