LEADER 04135nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910779903503321 005 20230814155143.0 010 $a1-282-75167-0 010 $a9786612751677 010 $a1-4008-2087-1 010 $a1-4008-1147-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400820870 035 $a(CKB)111056486506778 035 $a(EBL)617265 035 $a(OCoLC)705526945 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000213631 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11198942 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000213631 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10151730 035 $a(PQKB)11490639 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617265 035 $a(OCoLC)51579864 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35944 035 $a(DE-B1597)446059 035 $a(OCoLC)979905000 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400820870 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617265 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035804 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275167 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486506778 100 $a19920626d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOf words and the world $ereferential anxiety in contemporary French fiction /$fDavid R. Ellison 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1993 215 $a1 online resource (211 pages) 311 0 $a0-691-06964-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tNOTE ON TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tPART ONE: METAMORPHOSES OF THE REFERENTIAL FUNCTION, 1956-1984 --$tChapter One. Vertiginous Storytelling: Camus's La Chute, 1956 --$tChapter Two. Reappearing Man in Robbe-Grillet's Topologie d'une cité fantôme, 1976 --$tChapter Three. Narrative Leveling and Performative Pathos in Claude Simon's Les Géorgiques, 1981 --$tChapter Four. The Self as Referent: Postmodern Autobiographies, 1983-1984 (Robbe-Grillet, Duras, Sarraute) --$tPART TWO: "PURE FICTION" AND THE INEVITABILITY OF REFERENCE --$tINTRODUCTION TO PART TWO --$tChapter Five. Blanchot and Narrative --$tChapter Six. Beckett and the Ethics of Fabulation --$tCONCLUSION --$tNOTES --$tWORKS CITED --$tINDEX 330 $aHere 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. 606 $aFrench fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aExperimental fiction, French$xHistory and criticism 606 $aReference (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aMimesis in literature 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aExperimental fiction, French$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aReference (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aMimesis in literature. 676 $a843/.91409 700 $aEllison$b David R$01031195 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779903503321 996 $aOf words and the world$93756537 997 $aUNINA