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M. Dvorak, The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai's In Custody (Agrégation 2009)

M. Dvorak, The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai's In Custody (Agrégation 2009)

Publié le par Florian Pennanech

[Agrégation 2009]

Marta Dvorak, The faces of Carnival in Anita Desai's In custody, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, coll. "PUF-Cned", 2009, 224 p.

ISBN : 978-2-13-057108-7

Prix : 14 €

Sommaire :

PART ONE. — DISPLACEMENT, CREOLIZATION, AND TARGETED AUDIENCE
I. Global reader empowerment and author/ization
1 – Encoding and decoding : inherited knowledges and naturalized axiologies
2 – Authenticity and legitimation
II. The decline and fall of empires : the politics of language
1 – Mythical and literary paradigms : a stereoscopic representation
2 – The 'emergence of the interstices'
III. Literary carnival : collocating within culture-specific and cross-cultural frameworks
1 – Carnivalesque double-voicing
2 – The centripetal and the centrifugal

PART TWO. — PURITY AND POLLUTION
I. Myth and food, a window on cosmology
1 – Identity-constructing configurations
2 – Paradigms of transgression
II. The poetics and politics of scatology, saturation, and reception
1 – The grotesque body of carnival
2 – From death to diarrhoea
III. From carnivore to cannibal
1 – Conflating diners and dinners
2 – Staging paradigms of predation

PART THREE. — REALISM, ROMANCE, AND SATIRE
I. Transmogrification, transtextuality, and transculturalism
1 – The engine of allegory
2 – Clowning and genre
3 – In/validating tragedy
4 – Menippea
II. Figure and memory
1 – In my beginning is my end. In succession, Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended
2 – The idyllic and the demonic
III. Mimicry and mélange
1 – Refiguring, configuring and reconfiguring
2 – Parodia
3 – Art as phenomenon

Refracting the meanings stories make and unmake

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