Of Words and the World : : Referential Anxiety in Contemporary French Fiction / / David R. Ellison.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1993] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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