Claude Simon: Narrativities Without NarrativeU of Nebraska Press, 1995 M01 1 - 183 páginas "A provocative critical performance. . . . Elegant, concise, and dynamic."-Dina Sherzer, author of Representation in Contemporary French Fiction. "The scholarship in this manuscript is impeccable. The author knows her subject thoroughly and has a vast and impressive command of literary theory."-Dorish Kadish, author of Practices of the New Novel. Reputed to be a conservative group, the Nobel Prize committee astonished the world in 1985 by giving its prize to Claude Simon, one of the most adventurous and challenging of modern authors whose writing defies easy classification. This study shows exactly how inventive and challenging he is. Simon's works run the gamut from first-person narratives to narratives without a stable perspective. His novels deal with minute details of the grand stages of history-world war, for instance-and with the historical dimensions of everyday life. Maria Minich Brewer demonstrates that Simon has reformulated the standard forms of fiction to expose the logic of narrative, a complex and powerful legacy populated with stereotypes too easily accepted as natural. Her book brings into focus the cultural legacies embedded in narrative as well as the narrative dimensions of culture and history. Simon has voiced suspicion of narrative order. He never underestimates, however, either its pervasiveness or its powers. In his novels, he never dismisses narrative order as being "merely" a matter of formal conventions. On the contrary, he reveals narrative representation to be a powerful agent of some of the most violent events to which an individual is subject. Maria Minich Brewer is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University ofMinnesota. Her articles and essays have appeared in Boundary 2, MLN, The Romanic Review, Stanford French Review, and many other journals. |
Contenido
Myth History and Genre in the Aftermath | 1 |
Recasting Oedipus | 14 |
Refiguring Narrative and Cultural Legacies | 31 |
Legacies of Narratives | 45 |
Times of Narrative Legacies | 66 |
Parody of Narrative | 83 |
Gender War | 113 |
From Particular to General Mobilizations | 130 |
Notes | 149 |
Bibliography | 163 |
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Términos y frases comunes
aesthetic Bakhtin Bataille de Pharsale Battle of Pharsalus body bricolage Claude Simon context Corinne critical critique cultural narrativity death deconstruction described detail dialogism dimensions discourse emerges epistemologies fiction figures of narrativity formal fragments function gender General's genres Géorgiques hermeneutic Hillis Miller ideological images involved L'Acacia L'Herbe language legacies of narrative literary logic Lyotard master narratives meaning memory metafiction Minuit mobilization modes mon's Montès Montès's mother movement myth mythical narrative legacies narrative order narrative paradigms narratology narrator narrator's nouveau roman Oedipus parody particular permutations pink steel political postcards postmodern quest question rative reader reading reference Reixach relation repetition replication reproduced revolution Richard Howard Route des Flandres scene semiotic sense signifying Simon's novels Simon's writing simulacra simulacrum situation social soldiers Spanish Revolution story structure symbolic technological text's textual theory tion tive Trans translation Triptyque Vent violence woman women words
Referencias a este libro
Reading Between the Lines: Claude Simon and the Visual Arts Jean H. Duffy Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |