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Creating a fictional foreign character (usually highly stereotyped) allows an author to use irony to demonstrate how he is detached from a country’s natives. Using the way in which Montesquieu goes about writing ‘Lettres Persanes’ (1721) as a starting point, we will look at the parallel narrative st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isabelle Moreels
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2014-05-01
Series:Carnets
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/carnets/1166