This tribute was initially featured on the Paris Review blog and is used here with the author’s permission. *** When she died last December at the age of 98, the novelist Elizabeth Spencer was described as “a national treasure.” Author of nine novels, eight story collections, a memoir and a play, sh...

Special Issue: Elizabeth Spencer

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Lisa Alther et al. (2 oct. 2020)

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Faux en peinture et en écriture dans « The Practical Heart » d’Allan Gurganus

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Marie-Agnès Gay (2017)

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« The Practical Heart », a Gurganus novella whose action starts in Chicago in the 1870s, teases its reader with an elusive portrait of the heroine pretendedly painted by John Singer Sargent. This painting, the focus of a narrative built on a complex network of deceptions on the part of the homodiege...

Faux en peinture et en écriture dans “A Practical Heart” d’Allan Gurganus

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Marie-Agnès Gay (2017)

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From Confident to Murderer: The Meanders of Lucy Marsden's Confession in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus

Colloques et conférences

Marie-Agnès Gay (12 sept. 2013)

Colloques et conférences

The article explores the meanders of this very long novel (more than 700 pages) in order to analyse the various stages in its narrator's metamorphosis from witness to murderer, a complex three-fold process. Although the full revelation promised by the title has the reader expect an extensive account...

De l'euphémisme pronominal à l'hyperbole narrative, ou comment jouer sur/avec les mots dans Plays Well with Others d'Allan Gurganus

Colloques et conférences

Marie-Agnès Gay (29 mai 2008)

Colloques et conférences

Cet article se propose d'interroger les motivations du recours omniprésent à l'euphémisation dans Plays Well with Others, roman traitant de l'épidémie de SIDA qui décima la population artistique et homosexuelle new-yorkaise dans les années 80. C'est par une étude du paratexte, lieu de dévoilement si...

Corps et incorrections dans Plays Well with Others d’Allan Gurganus

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Marie-Agnès Gay (2008)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

International audience

"Héroïsme majeur" des mots dans Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All d’Allan Gurganus

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Marie-Agnès Gay (2008)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

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Le no-man’s land surpeuplé de l’écriture dans Plays Well with Others d’Allan Gurganus

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Marie-Agnès Gay (2004)

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In Plays Well with Others (1997), Allan Gurganus’s novel about the AIDS pandemic which decimated the New York gay community in the eighties, the author makes a plea against sectarianism and exclusion. The purpose of this paper is to show how Allan Gurganus’s rejection of closed territories manifests...

Le no man's land surpeuplé de l'écriture dans Plays Well with Others d'Allan Gurganus

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Marie-Agnès Gay (2004)

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In Plays Well with Others (1997), his novel about the AIDS pandemic which decimated the New York gay community in the eighties, Allan Gurganus makes a plea against sectarianism and exclusion. The purpose of this paper is to show how Allan Gurganus’s rejection of closed territories manifests itself l...

Nouvelles d’Allan Gurganus : contes ordinaires d’apocalypse

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Marie-Agnès Gay (1999)

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