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

Ellison, David R.

 
9780691069647: Of Words and the World: Referential Anxiety in Contemporary French Fiction
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ISBN 10: 0691069646 ISBN 13: 9780691069647
Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1993

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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 representational function of writing as they created works of imagination that turned in upon themselves and away from exterior reality. It became fashionable at one point to affirm that literature was no longer about the world but uniquely about the words on a page, the signifying surface of the text. Ellison tests this assumption, showing that even in the most seemingly self-referential fictions the words point to the world from which they can never completely separate themselves.
Through close readings Ellison examines the novels and theoretical writings of authors whose works are fundamental to our perception of contemporary French writing and thought: Camus, Robbe-Grillet, Simon, Duras, Sarraute, Blanchot, and Beckett. The result is a new understanding of the link between the referential function of literary language and the problematic of the ethics of fiction.

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Contenuti

Acknowledgments
Note on Texts and Translations
Introduction 3
Pt. 1 Metamorphoses of the Referential Function, 1956-1984 23
Ch. 1 Vertiginous Storytelling: Camus's La Chute, 1956 25
Ch. 2 Reappearing Man in Robbe-Grillet's Topologie d'une cite fantome, 1976 44
Ch. 3 Narrative Leveling and Performative Pathos in Claude Simon's Les Georgiques, 1981 55
Ch. 4 The Self as Referent: Postmodern Autobiographies, 1983-1984 (Robbe-Grillet, Duras, Sarraute) 69
Pt. 2 "Pure Fiction" And the Inevitability of Reference 97
Ch. 5 Blanchot and Narrative 104
Ch. 6 Beckett and the Ethics of Fabulation 132
Conclusion 155
Notes 159
Works Cited 183
Index 193

Product Description

ELLISON, D. R. OF WORDS AND THE WORLD. REFERENTIAL ANXIETY IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FICTION. PRINCETON, NJ, 1993, xiii 196 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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Editore
Princeton Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1993
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0691069646
ISBN 13 
9780691069647
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
220
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