The Art of Rupture: Narrative Desire and Duplicity in the Tales of Guy de Maupassant

1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Gerald Prince ◽  
Charles J. Stivale
Keyword(s):  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Narrative Desire

The Art of Rupture: Narrative Desire and Duplicity in the Tales of Guy de Maupassant

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Phillip Winn ◽  
Charles J. Stivale
Keyword(s):  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Narrative Desire

POLIVARIABILITY OF THE BASTARD MOTIF IN THE SHORT STORIES BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT: CHARACTER IN SEARCH OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Oksana Galchuk
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of It ◽  
Structural Methods

The theme of illegitimacy Guy de Maupassant evolved in his works this article perceives as one of the factors of the author’s concept of a person and the plane of intersection of the most typical motifs of his short stories. The study of the author’s concept of a person through the prism of polivariability of the motif of a bastard is relevant in today’s revision of traditional values, transformation of the usual social institutions and search for identities, etc. The purpose of the study is to give a definition to the existence specifics of the bastard motif in the Maupassant’s short stories by using historical and literary, comparative, structural methods of analysis as dominant. To do this, I analyze the content, variability and the role of this motive in the formation of the Maupassant’s concept of a person, the author’s innovations in its interpretation from the point of view of literary diachrony. Maupassant interprets the bastard motif in the social, psychological and metaphorical-symbolic sense. For the short stories with the presentation of this motif, I suggest the typology based on the role of it in the structure of the work and the ideological and thematic content: the short stories with a motif-fragment, the ones with the bastard’s leitmotif and the group where the bastard motif becomes a central theme. The Maupassant’s interpretation of the bastard motif combines the general tendencies of its existence in the world’s literary tradition and individual reading. The latter is the result of the author’s understanding of the relevant for the era issues: the transformation of the family model, the interest in the theory of heredity, the strengthening of atheistic sentiments, the growth of frustration in the system of traditional social and moral values etc. This study sets the ground for a prospective analysis of the evolution the bastard motif in the short-story collections of different years or a comparative study of the motif in short stories and novels by Maupassant.

Transnational Precursors of American Realism

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Renate von Bardeleben
Keyword(s):  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Honore De Balzac ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Authors

This chapter concentrates on European realist innovators—Björnstjerne Björnson, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant—and their effect on the formative period of American realism. It studies in detail the transatlantic development of new techniques and discusses the ways in which these new methods were reflected in the works of American authors and critics. Inspired by the theories and practice of their precursors, American writers felt liberated to introduce new narrative strategies to represent America’s rising urbanism, the struggles of the social classes, and the increase of social mobility in the industrial age. They also dealt with the emancipated “New Woman” and the changing relationship between the sexes. The guiding principles on which writers on both sides of the Atlantic agreed were truth, sincerity, and frankness.

Guy de Maupassant

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Cogman
Keyword(s):  
Guy De Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant.

1927 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Eunice R. Goddard ◽  
Heinrich Gelzer
Keyword(s):  
Guy De Maupassant

Certain Madness: Guy de Maupassant and Hypnotism

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-241
Author(s):  
Atia Sattar
Keyword(s):  
Guy De Maupassant

Narrative Desire and the Limits of Lament in Homer

2016 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-404
Author(s):  
Tyler Flatt
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Desire
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document