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035			_a(DE-B1597)9780231546034
035			_a(DE-B1597)563214
035			_a(OCoLC)1163878024
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aPQ683 _b.W36 2020
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aWampole, Christy _eautore
245	1	0	_aDegenerative Realism : _bNovel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France / _cChristy Wampole.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aLiterature Now
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tIntroduction: What Is Degenerative Realism? -- _t1. Demography and Survival in Twenty- First- Century France -- _t2. Endarkenment from the Minitel to the Internet -- _t3. Real- Time Realism, Part 1: Journalistic Immediacy -- _t4. Real- Time Realism, Part 2: Le roman post- pamphlétaire -- _tConclusion. Novel as Nation: Forms of Parallel Decay -- _tNOTES -- _tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- _tINDEX
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aA new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of France, Europe, and Western civilization is portrayed as all but certain and the literary mode of realism begins to break down. Above all, they depict a degenerative force whose effects on the nation and on reality itself can be felt.Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques this emergent tendency toward “degenerative realism.” She considers the ways these writers draw on social science, the New Journalism of the 1960s, political pamphlets, reportage, and social media to construct an atmosphere of disintegration and decline. Wampole maps how degenerative realist novels explore a world contaminated by conspiracy theories, mysticism, and misinformation, responding to the internet age’s confusion between fact and fiction with a lament for the loss of the real and an unrelenting emphasis on the role of the media in crafting reality. In a time of widespread populist anxieties over the perceived decline of the French nation, this book diagnoses the literary symptoms of today’s reactionary revival.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650		0	_aDespair in literature.
650		0	_aDystopias in literature.
650		0	_aFrench fiction _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zFrance _xHistory _y21st century.
650		0	_aRealism in literature.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/wamp18516
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231546034
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231546034/original
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