Maxence Gouleau
Biographic Data
| ID | 9644127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxence Gouleau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxence |
| FAMILY NAME | Gouleau |
| SIGNATURE | GOULEAU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sorbonne Université |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature
Although they have often been used as metaphors for the act of writing, pregnancy and childbirth have a long history of being left out of literature itself, especially as diegetic events in the novel. Jessie Greengrass’s novel Sight (2018) provides us with a rare pregnant narrator and as such includes pregnancy as a diegetic event and as a theme. Starting with the assessment that pregnancy in literature can be summed up by the image of “a man pac…
“The rest is silence”
Ian McEwan’s claim that, like Conrad, he writes novels “to make [us] see” can seem problematic when applied to his 2016 novel Nutshell. The novel both illustrates and complicates the author’s self-assigned task, as its foetal narrator is essentially blind but still insists on conveying a view of the world outside the womb. It is further complicated by the fact that Nutshell is meant as a retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a play, and therefore im…
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“The rest is silence”
Ian McEwan’s claim that, like Conrad, he writes novels “to make [us] see” can seem problematic when applied to his 2016 novel Nutshell. The novel both illustrates and complicates the author’s self-assigned task, as its foetal narrator is essentially blind but still insists on conveying a view of the world outside the womb. It is further complicated by the fact that Nutshell is meant as a retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a play, and therefore im…
Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature
Although they have often been used as metaphors for the act of writing, pregnancy and childbirth have a long history of being left out of literature itself, especially as diegetic events in the novel. Jessie Greengrass’s novel Sight (2018) provides us with a rare pregnant narrator and as such includes pregnancy as a diegetic event and as a theme. Starting with the assessment that pregnancy in literature can be summed up by the image of “a man pac…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Acoustics (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Curiosity (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Metaphor (1 work)