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The Journalistic Discourse in Butor's l'emploi du temps

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Michel Butor's L'Emploi du temps is a novel about a detective novel. Drawing on the connections between the detective novel and the fait divers, this essay examines the latter as a journalistic genre that pervades the narrator's discourse. Two other elements of the journalistic discourse, the interview and the feature article, are also discussed.

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    Sudarsan Rangarajan

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Rangarajan, S. The Journalistic Discourse in Butor's l'emploi du temps . Neophilologus 87, 385–397 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023982804393

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