L'ordinaire, l'étrange et le sublime dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass

With collections of short stories such as In the Loyal Mountains or, more recently, The Hermit’s Story, Rick Bass has continuously explored the multifarious connections between man and nature. The purpose of this paper, through the analysis of a selection of his most compelling stories, is to exa...

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spelling cairn-RFEA_106_65RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2005-4-page-50?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.106.65 L'ordinaire, l'étrange et le sublime dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass Gavillon, François2005 écriture de la natureétrangeordinaireRick Basssublimenature-writingordinaryRick Basssublimeuncannyfre Revue française d’études américaines | 106 | 4 | 2005-12-01 | p. 50-65 | 0397-7870 RFEA_10688 With collections of short stories such as In the Loyal Mountains or, more recently, The Hermit’s Story, Rick Bass has continuously explored the multifarious connections between man and nature. The purpose of this paper, through the analysis of a selection of his most compelling stories, is to examine three recurring and concurrent modalities. We have chosen to term them as follows: the ordinary, or the focus on the—apparent—simplicity of both the writing and the lifestyle celebrated in the short stories; the uncanny, which takes the characters, and the readers along with them, into near-magical, sometimes unsettling, sometimes wondrous, experiences; Clément Rosset’s investigations into the “idiotism” of the real are also examined in this light; and the sublime, in its rhetorical and esthetic acceptions, which, in a quietistic post-luminist mode, makes the reader the privileged beneficiary of the writer’s art and love of the wild.Cairn free access
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topic écriture de la nature
étrange
ordinaire
Rick Bass
sublime
nature-writing
ordinary
Rick Bass
sublime
uncanny
spellingShingle écriture de la nature
étrange
ordinaire
Rick Bass
sublime
nature-writing
ordinary
Rick Bass
sublime
uncanny
Gavillon, François
L'ordinaire, l'étrange et le sublime dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass
topic_facet écriture de la nature
étrange
ordinaire
Rick Bass
sublime
nature-writing
ordinary
Rick Bass
sublime
uncanny
description With collections of short stories such as In the Loyal Mountains or, more recently, The Hermit’s Story, Rick Bass has continuously explored the multifarious connections between man and nature. The purpose of this paper, through the analysis of a selection of his most compelling stories, is to examine three recurring and concurrent modalities. We have chosen to term them as follows: the ordinary, or the focus on the—apparent—simplicity of both the writing and the lifestyle celebrated in the short stories; the uncanny, which takes the characters, and the readers along with them, into near-magical, sometimes unsettling, sometimes wondrous, experiences; Clément Rosset’s investigations into the “idiotism” of the real are also examined in this light; and the sublime, in its rhetorical and esthetic acceptions, which, in a quietistic post-luminist mode, makes the reader the privileged beneficiary of the writer’s art and love of the wild.
author Gavillon, François
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title L'ordinaire, l'étrange et le sublime dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass
title_short L'ordinaire, l'étrange et le sublime dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass
title_full L'ordinaire, l'étrange et le sublime dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass
title_fullStr L'ordinaire, l'étrange et le sublime dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass
title_full_unstemmed L'ordinaire, l'étrange et le sublime dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass
title_sort l'ordinaire, l'étrange et le sublime dans les nouvelles de rick bass
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