{"product_id":"contemporary-french-and-francophone-futuristic-novels-the-longing-to-be-written-and-its-refusal-9783031166303","title":"Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to Be Written and Its Refusal","description":"This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies, possible worlds theories applied to cognitive narratology, questions related to the criticism of post-humanity, and, more broadly, contemporary French and Francophone literature. It examines the fictional minds of characters and their conceptions of resistance to the anticipated worlds they inhabit, particularly in novels by Pierre Bordage, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Houellebecq, Amin Maalouf, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Antoine Volodine, and Élisabeth Vonarburg. It also explores how corporal postures serve as a matrix for philosophical quests in novels by Amélie Nothomb, Alain Damasio, and Romain Lucazeau. More specifically, from the fictional readers' points of view, it provides a critical approach to the mythologies of writing, in the wake of the French philosophical tales by authors including Cyrano de Bergerac and Voltaire, to question the traditionally expressed formulations of the mythologies of writing, that is, of the metaphors of the book (the book of life, nature, and the world), to rethink the idea of a humanity within its limits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emmanuel Buzay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031166303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmmanuel Buzay\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. His research interests include contemporary French and Francophone literature, literatures of the imagination (science fiction, anticipatory novels, and fantasy), memory studies, and narrative and semiotic studies of film and video games. He has published in \u003ci\u003eContemporary French \u0026amp; Francophone Studies: SITES, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRes Futurae, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLectures croisées de l'oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), and he has articles forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eNouvelles Etudes francophones\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eAustralian Journal of French Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43491951542387,"sku":"9.78303E+12","price":194.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_9c9c1ce5-155f-42da-bbcb-b4d881ba290d.jpg?v=1755172112","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/contemporary-french-and-francophone-futuristic-novels-the-longing-to-be-written-and-its-refusal-9783031166303","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}