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L'écriture du terroir revisitée : La Rage de Louis Hamelin
The Writing of the Country Revisited: The Rage by Jean Hamelin

Author(s): YANNICK RESCH
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: intertextuality; rural novel (roman de la terre); irony; writing of excess

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on ironic references to the traditions of rural literature in Jean Hamelin’s "The Rage". The author explores the concept of the “writing of excess,” and claims that whereas actual "country" is an evanescent category, the territory that one can "possess" is that of language.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 13-19
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: French
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