The «Conte»: Oral and written dynamics - Couverture souple

Carruthers, Janice; Mccusker, Maeve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3039118706 ISBN 13 : 9783039118700

Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2009

Synopsis

A majority of the chapters in this book were originally presented as papers at a conference held at Queen's University Belfast in September 2006. The volume explores the oral-written dynamic in the conte français/francophone, focusing on key aspects of the relationship between oral and written forms of the conte. The chapters fall into four broad thematic areas (the oral-written dynamic in early modern France ; literary appropriations and transformations ; postcolonial contexts ; storytelling in contemporary France : linguistic strategies). Within these broad areas, some chapters deal with sources and influences (such as that of written on oral and vice versa), others with the nature of the discourse resulting from an oral-written dynamic (discourse structure, linguistic features etc.), some with the oral-written interface as it affects the definition of genre, others with the role of the ‘oral' within the literary or written text (use of storytelling scenarios, the problematics inherent in transcribing/adapting the spoken word etc.). This chronological and methodological range allows us to situate the emergence of the form in socio-cultural and historical terms, and to open up debate around the role of the conte in particular geographical and political contexts : regional, national, European and postcolonial. This book contains contributions in both English and French.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Editors : Janice Carruthers is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Queen's University Belfast. She has published widely on tense and aspect in contemporary French, and on the structure of oral discourse, especially oral narrative. Her recent monograph brings together these two fields, Oral Narration in Modern French. A Linguistic Analysis of Temporal Patterns (2005). Maeve McCusker is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Queen's University Belfast. She has published extensively on Caribbean literature, notably a monograph (Patrick Chamoiseau : Recovering Memory, 2007), and a number of articles on créolité, on contemporary autobiography and on memory in Antillean fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3039118706
• ISBN 13: 9783039118700
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne