...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the treatment of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality in contemporary French narrative. It explains that this volume has identified thematic intersections and divergences among the novels in this study and has offered interpretation...

... liminality. Christmas Party Alberto Cavalcanti English tradition festive ghost story adolescent liminality Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet around a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell...

... liminal potential to religious beliefs and posits the suggestion that pantheism is the most appropriate religious belief system within the social-scientific framework of his model post-colonial society. Finally, the chapter argues that Nation highlights the importance for young readers...

... Debarati Schoentjes Pierre Silverman Maxim Citton Yves Littérature-monde en français Literary forms Liminality Border Thinking Ai-je quelque ascendant qui fut beau capitaine, jeune enseigne insolent ou négrier farouchement taciturne ? À l’est de Suez quelque oncle retourné en barbarie sous le casque...

... and geographical realms that are beyond the influences and developments of her period, accessible only to initiates. animism Butts Mary cosmopolitanism Dorset First World War Lawrence D H liminality mysticism nostalgia Powys John Cowper Somerset temporality childhood class dualism exile Patterson...

...This book examines contemporary French narrative and explores two related issues: the centrality within recent French fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality; and, the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s...

... America. Liminal in his ability to suspend his brutality, the rubber baron can become a gentleman and then rapidly return to his original barbaric state. This allows him, for example, to traffic between the Amazonian rainforest and Paris with ease, until all his wealth is wasted and he is then forced...

...; of opening and closing; of “swinging both ways”. This trope is rich in significance and the paper considers a variety of related ideas: axels, still points, rotation, oscillation, liminality, translation, transition and trespass. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway Mansfield Barthes hinge-points gates swinging...

... on Derrida’s work on hospitality, as well as George Simmel and Martin Heidegger on liminality and dwelling. The chapter analyses a range of Barnardo’s recursive ‘hospitable’ practices, such as the annual teas and suppers for ‘waifs’ and ‘factory girls’. Such events doubled as charity mechanisms and promotional...

...The conclusion brings all of the book’s threads together, recapitulating themes developed in the introduction. Later writers may have been were attracted to Johnson, because he was a liminal figure, looking backwards to Milton, Shakespeare and the classics, but whose literary career, nonetheless...

... in a supposedly non-fictional account for adults which narrativized the beginnings of his work in the 1860s. Both raise crucial questions about thresholds and liminality, about borders between inside/outside, animate and inanimate, indeed, between human and not-human. The chapter argues that Barnardo uses...

...This introductory chapter discusses the themes of this volume: passage, ritual and liminality in contemporary French narrative. This volume examines the works of several French authors including Laurent Mauvignier, Francois Bon, Pierre Bergounioux, Marie Darrieussecq, Helene Lenoir and Jean Rouaud...

...This chapter examines the themes of illness, ritual and liminality in three French novels. These include Le Mal de mer by Marie Darrieussecq, Le Répit by Helene Lenoir, and Apprendre à fini by Laurent Mauvignier. It explains that these three novels...

.... In press interviews at the time, Miller specifically talked up Mad Max as a horror film. Mad Max displays an astonishing unity between character, narrative, theme, and environment. For liminality binds the film thematically, narratively and environmentally. A hero figure...

... discussions of Transcendentalism and liminality, it maintains that the nonhuman presence in the modernist work of Trilogyconnects the human to nonhuman nature with significant implications about human destruction, environmental disaster, natural renewal, and regeneration. Further, its...