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Narrative hermeneutics looks toward the interpretive study of human lives as a vehicle for exploring foundational theoretical and philosophical issues tied to the human condition. In referring to narrative, this area of study seeks to underscore the temporal dimension of lives, focusing especially on the process by which meaning is constructed and reconstructed across the course of time. In referring...
This study focuses on authors who have chosen French as their language of expression, seeming, at least at first glance, to have turned their backs on their mother tongue. Two women authors are under scrutiny here, the Greek Blanche Molfessis and the Lebanese Vénus Khoury-Ghata, whose viewpoints intersect with Nancy Huston’s and Claude Esteban’s reflections on bilingualism. Each author’s knowledge...
Résumé Dans cet article, nous examinerons les prologues, les interludes et l’épilogue qui encadrent La Force de l’âge (1960), La Force des choses I and II (1963) et Tout compte fait (1972). À première vue, Beauvoir semble suivre les conventions propres au genre préfaciel. Pourtant, comme nous le verrons, le paratexte de Beauvoir n’a pas comme fonction unique l’explication du texte ou la justification...
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