Entre vanité et art poétique : l’esthétique du rien chez Graham Swift
As a metaphor of the disintegration into nothingness, the ashes in Last Orders bespeak the mere nothing of life (« it aint nothing at all ») and appear in numerous descriptions which can then be read as revisited vanitas paintings. Swift’s challenge is to transform the mere nothing of life into a po...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1541 |