Of Words and the World : Referential Anxiety in Contemporary French Fiction /

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Here David Ellison explores the problems encountered by France's best experimental authors writing between 1956 and 1984, when faced with the question: "What should my writing be about?" These years are characterized by the rise of the "new novelists," who questioned the rep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellison, David R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1993]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Experimental fiction, French > History and criticism.
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Mimesis in literature.
Reference (Philosophy) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE: METAMORPHOSES OF THE REFERENTIAL FUNCTION, 1956-1984
  • Chapter One. Vertiginous Storytelling: Camus's La Chute, 1956
  • Chapter Two. Reappearing Man in Robbe-Grillet's Topologie d'une cité fantôme, 1976
  • Chapter Three. Narrative Leveling and Performative Pathos in Claude Simon's Les Géorgiques, 1981
  • Chapter Four. The Self as Referent: Postmodern Autobiographies, 1983-1984 (Robbe-Grillet, Duras, Sarraute)
  • PART TWO: "PURE FICTION" AND THE INEVITABILITY OF REFERENCE
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO
  • Chapter Five. Blanchot and Narrative
  • Chapter Six. Beckett and the Ethics of Fabulation
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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