The art of rupture : narrative desire and duplicity in the tales of Guy de Maupassant / Charles J. Stivale
1994, First Edition. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430957
ISBN: 0472105442
Physical description; viii, 264 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index. Contents; 1. Introduction: Guy de Maupassant and "The Art of Rupture" -- I. Desire, Duplicity, and Rupture -- 2. Letters and Laws of Rupture -- 3. Duty, Desire, and Dream: Maupassant's "La Petite Roque" -- II. Maupassant and the War-Machine -- 4. "Born to Make War" -- 5. Figures of Male Repute -- III. Maupassant and the Bachelor Machine -- 6. Fields of Attraction/Repulsion -- 7. An Other Machine, or the Family of the Flayed. Subjects; Maupassant, Guy de 1850-1893 Characters Women. Maupassant, Guy de 1850-1893. Maupassant, Guy de. 1800-1899. Women and literature France History 19th century. Narration (Rhetoric) History 19th century. Man-woman relationships in literature. Femininity in literature. Deception in literature. Desire in literature. Short story. Narration (Rhetoric).
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