Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint adds to the emerging body of work on intertextuality through expansion of critical examinations of the novels of this award-winning author, presenting him as the ultimate magister ludi.

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Sarah L. Glasco is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. She holds a PhD in Romance languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she focused on the contemporary French novel with a supporting program in contemporary Hispanic literature. She has published in the French Review, Expressions Maghrébines, and Perspectives on Undergraduate Research Mentoring and continues to pursue teaching and research in her varied interests that include Samuel Beckett, Azouz Begag, multicultural France and immigration policy, and sociolinguistics in language teaching and literature.

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Contents: Bathrooms, the Banal, and the Critical Consensus: Toussaint as Magister Ludi and the Novels of the 1980's - La Salle de bain: (Re)cycling Through Time - Semantics and the Saugrenu - The Evasive Maneuvers of Monsieur - Contextual Evasion - Persuing Pascal(e): Ludic Incongruities via Text, Context, and Intertext in L'appareil-photo - (Re)presenting Reality: The Reticent - (Meta)narratives of the 1990's - The Misadventures of Marie: A 21st Century Tetralogy - The Sexual Evolution of Toussaint's Literary Lovers - Past, Present, Future: What's Next for Jean-Philippe Toussaint?