The heuristics of narrativity in the works of Jean-Philippe Toussaint

This thesis analyses nine novels and two films by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, spanning the period from La Salle de bain (1985) to Nue (2013). Drawing on the hermeneutic phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur, it argues that Toussaint's texts can be fruitfully understood as representing fictionalised forms...

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Main Author: Crichton, Will
Published: University of Warwick 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.693227