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Palimpsests
Literature in the Second Degree
Häftad, 1997
739 kr
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By definition, a palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible." Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of Gérard Genette's most important works, examines the …
Jail Sentences
Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction
Inbunden, 2008
523 kr
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A long list of canonical writers in Western literature have experienced incarceration and have subsequently written celebrated works about the imprisoned and the condemned. The French tradition is no exception: writers who produced noteworthy texts while incarcerated or who later wrote about their …
Quotology
Häftad, 2010
317 kr
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Erasmus advised readers to learn quotations by heart and copy them everywhere: write them in the front and back of books; inscribe them on rings and cups; paint them on doors and walls, "even on the glass of a window." Emerson noted that "in Europe, every church is a kind of book or bible, so …
Why Fiction?
Inbunden, 2010
788 kr
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In Why Fiction?—one of the most important works of narrative theory to come out of France in recent years—Jean-Marie Schaeffer understands fiction not as a literary genre but, in contrast to all other literary theorists, as a genre of life. The result is arguably the first systematic refutation of …
Listening in
Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative
Av Eric Prieto
Häftad, 2007
382 kr
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What can music teach a novelist, autobiographer, or playwright about the art of telling stories? The musical play of forms and sounds seems initially to have little to do with the representational function of the traditional narrative genres. Yet throughout the modernist era, music has been invoked …
Fuzzy Fiction
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
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Fuzzy Fiction examines the phenomenon of "fuzziness," both figurative and structural, in the contemporary French novel. Fuzziness, as originally conceived by Bertrand Russell a century ago, eventually led to the fuzzy set theory of mathematics, on which Jean-Louis Hippolyte bases his theory of …
Rhetorical Narratology
Inbunden, 1999
647 kr
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Narratology attempts to determine the rules or codes of composition of a narrative and to formulate the "grammar" of narrative, that is, the structures and formulas that recur across stories with very different content. Since its inception some thirty years ago, narratology has adopted a largely …
Semiotic Investigations
Towards an Effective Semiotics
Av Alec McHoul
Inbunden, 1996
647 kr
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In "Semiotic Investigations", Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls 'effective semiotics' - a theory that investigates 'the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual uses'. As McHoul notes, 'these uses take place in a number of 'media,' the most important of which …
Small Worlds
Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature
Av Warren Motte
Inbunden, 1999
788 kr
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Small Worlds examines the minimalist trend in French writing, from the early 1980s to the present. Warren Motte first considers the practice of minimalism in other media, such as the plastic arts and music, and then proposes a theoretical model of minimalist literature. Subsequent chapters are …
Other Book
Bewilderments of Fiction
Av Jordan Stump
Inbunden, 2011
394 kr
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Jordan Stump had often contemplated the relationship between a translation and "the book itself," ruminating on the intriguing inherent sameness and difference between the two. In The Other Book, Stump examines the "other" forms of a book and the ways in which they both mirror and depart from the …
Pictures Into Words
Images in Contemporary French Fiction
Av Ari J. Blatt
Inbunden, 2012
652 kr
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The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural production as such. Pictures into Words explores …
In Praise of Flattery
Inbunden, 2007
346 kr
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Where would we be without flattery? Hobbes deemed it an honorable duty and Meredith called it the "finest of the arts." Alexander the Great applied it as imperial policy; Caesar and Cleopatra were masters of it; and Napoleon devoured it like candy. But flattery also has influential enemies. Cicero …
Loiterature
Häftad, 1999
447 kr
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The fabric of the western literary tradition is not always predictable. In one wayward strand, waywardness itself is at work, delay becomes almost predictable, triviality is auspicious, and failure is cheerfully admired. This is loiterature. Loiterature is the first book to identify this strand, to …
Mimologics
Häftad, 1995
512 kr
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Do words—their sounds and shapes, their lengths and patterns—imitate the world? Mimology says they do. First argued in Plato's Cratylus more than two thousand years ago, mimology has left an important mark in virtually every major art and artistic theory thereafter. Fascinating and many-faceted, …
Essays in Aesthetics
Av Gerard Genette, Gerald Prince
Häftad, 2005
317 kr
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Over the course of the past forty years, Gérard Genette's work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary and cultural criticism, and he continues to be one of France's most influential theorists. The eighteen pieces in Essays in Aesthetics are of …
Rue Ordener, Rue Labat
Av Sarah Kofman
Häftad, 1996
252 kr
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Rue Ordener, Rue Labat is a moving memoir by the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman. It opens with the horrifying moment in July 1942 when the author's father, the rabbi of a small synagogue, was dragged by police from the family home on Rue Ordener in Paris, then transported to …
Rushdie Letters
Freedom to Speak, Freedom to Write
Av in Association with Article 19, Steve MacDonogh
Häftad, 1993
568 kr
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In February 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran announced that Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, and ""all involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death."" Anyone who died in the cause of killing Rushdie, he said, would be ""regarded as a martyr …
Speaking of Crime
Narratives of Prisoners
Häftad, 2000
332 kr
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Speaking of Crime explores how inmates speak of their lives and in particular how they speak of crime. What is the power of speech for prisoners? What do their uses of pronouns and choices of verbs reveal about them, their experiences of violence, their relationships with other prisoners, and their …
Give the Word
Responses to Werner Hamacher's "95 Theses on Philology"
Av Werner Hamacher, Gerhard Richter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
883 kr
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Werner Hamacher’s witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities-and particularly academic philology-that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word eleven scholars of literature and philosophy (Susan Bernstein, MichÈle Cohen-Halimi, Peter …
Give the Word
Responses to Werner Hamacher's "95 Theses on Philology"
Av Werner Hamacher, Gerhard Richter m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
773 kr
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Werner Hamacher’s witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities-and particularly academic philology-that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word eleven scholars of literature and philosophy (Susan Bernstein, MichÈle Cohen-Halimi, Peter …
