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Of Words and the World
1993
Overview
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 beabout?\" 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.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Subject
/ Adage
/ Allegory
/ Allusion
/ Anecdote
/ Author
/ Dasein
/ Dialogic
/ Essay
/ European
/ Experimental fiction -- France -- History and criticism
/ Experimental fiction, French
/ France
/ French
/ French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
/ Genre
/ Irony
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
/ Literatures of Romance languages
/ Metaphor
/ Novel
/ Novelist
/ Parable
/ Pathos
/ Persona
/ Poetry
/ Pretext
/ Prose
/ Reference (Philosophy) in literature
/ Referent
/ Rhetoric
/ Theory
/ Thought
/ Treatise
/ Uttering
/ Writing
ISBN
1400820871, 9781400820870, 9780691069647, 0691069646
