This book provides a comprehensive look at the obsessive theme of crime, which is most evident in the context of dysfunctional family relationships, in Guy de Maupassant's nearly 300 short works. A study of the narrative structures points to the presence of a jury-like atmosphere throughout, highlights an inherent thematic unity in a fragmentary genre, and details an artistics sophistication on the part of an author whose works have only recently begun to receive this type of critical re-examination in the scholarship of nineteenth-century French literature.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
082042479x
ISBN-13
9780820424798
eBay Product ID (ePID)
129207096
Product Key Features
Author
Mary L Poteau-Tralie
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Issn
0893-5963
Series Part/Volume Number
30
First Published
1994
Series Title
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures
Author Biography
The Author: Mary L. Poteau-Tralie is an assistant professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She received her Ph.D. in 1991 in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University.
Date of Publication
01/02/1995
Country of Publication
United States
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