LEADER 04116nam 22006132 450 001 9910306640103321 005 20230621135400.0 010 $a1-78962-910-1 010 $a1-78694-935-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000007101985 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5558555 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002048357 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781786949356 035 $a(OCoLC)1059414954 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82854 035 $a(ScCtBLL)8530df36-f48b-420b-98a2-7800a61449d9 035 $a(PPN)266506992 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007101985 100 $a20191104d2018|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFre?res ennemis $ethe French in American literature, Americans in French literature /$fWilliam Cloonan$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aLiverpool scholarship online 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2020). 311 $a1-78694-132-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe creation of the American in Paris: the American -- The splendor and misery of the American scientist: L'E?ve future -- The American woman and the invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country -- The expatriate idyll: The Sun Also Rises -- Truths and delusions: the Cold War in Les Mandarins -- Embracing American culture: Cherokee -- An American Excursion into French fiction: The Book of Illusions -- Rerouting: C?a n'existe pas l'Ame?rique -- L'Ame?ricaine in Paris: Le Divorce. 330 $aFre?res Ennemis focuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature from approximately the mid-nineteenth-century to the present. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political contexts are introduced to provide a better understanding of the historical reality influencing the individual novels, a reality to which these novels are also responding. Chapters One through Five, covering a period from the mid-1870s to the end of the Cold War, discuss significant aspects of the often fraught relationship from the theoretical perspective of Roland Barthes' theory of modern myth, described in his Mythologies. Barthes' theory helps situate Franco-American tensions in a paradigmatic structure, while at the same time it is supple enough to allow for shifts and reversals within the paradigm. Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture. 410 0$aLiverpool scholarship online. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$xIn literature 607 $aFrance$xIn literature 607 $aUnited States$xForeign public opinion, French 607 $aFrance$xForeign public opinion, American 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.409 700 $aCloonan$b William$01208603 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910306640103321 996 $aFre?res ennemis$92788356 997 $aUNINA