in:
Women's studies international forum
New York [u.a.]:
2000
,
761 - 766 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Gorrara, Claire |
| In: | Women's studies international forum |
| Jahr: | 2000 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article discusses the first novel of the Belgian writer, Amélie Nothomb, whose irreverent mixing of classical and contemporary models of writing has delighted literary critics in 1990s France. The main argument of this article will be that "Hygiène de l'assassin" playfully appropriates aspects of both Plato's Socratic dialogues and the classic detective story to question the ways we approach texts and the reading strategies we adopt. Central to Nothomb's concerns is the subversive effect of the woman reader as a figure who contests (male) authorial intentionality. Bakhtin's formulation of the "novelistic" also operates as an important critical reference point for my discussion. It offers a model for understanding the liteary experimentation of Nothomb's text as a means of creating "speaking volumes", dialogised encounters, which unsettle our expectations of genre, literature and culture. | |
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