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Just Words

- Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction
Af: Robert W. Greene Engelsk Paperback

Just Words

- Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction
Af: Robert W. Greene Engelsk Paperback
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Are the words that a novelist uses adequate to his or her elusive subject—the human condition? Are they pertinent, accurate, invariably fair, unflinchingly honest? Or do the novelist's words execute essentially formal maneuvers, engaging our interest through their patterns rather than their reach? And what about a possible third, synthesizing option? Robert W. Greene discovers that the two apparently divergent intentions in question (metalinguistic vs. moralistic) often paradoxically coexist in French fiction. Also, no doubt because it is more consistently self-conscious than that of any previous era, the fiction of twentieth-century France seems to illustrate this convergence with special brillance. From L'lmmoralist (1902) to L'Usage de la parole (1980) Greene explores combinations and permutations of moralistic analysis and metalinguistic commentary in a particular sequence of prose narrative. Along the way, he observes Gide, Proust, Malraux, Camus, Duras, and Sarraute, each in his or her own fashion, moving ceaselessly back and forth between soundings of the heart and diagnoses of the tongue.
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Are the words that a novelist uses adequate to his or her elusive subject—the human condition? Are they pertinent, accurate, invariably fair, unflinchingly honest? Or do the novelist's words execute essentially formal maneuvers, engaging our interest through their patterns rather than their reach? And what about a possible third, synthesizing option? Robert W. Greene discovers that the two apparently divergent intentions in question (metalinguistic vs. moralistic) often paradoxically coexist in French fiction. Also, no doubt because it is more consistently self-conscious than that of any previous era, the fiction of twentieth-century France seems to illustrate this convergence with special brillance. From L'lmmoralist (1902) to L'Usage de la parole (1980) Greene explores combinations and permutations of moralistic analysis and metalinguistic commentary in a particular sequence of prose narrative. Along the way, he observes Gide, Proust, Malraux, Camus, Duras, and Sarraute, each in his or her own fashion, moving ceaselessly back and forth between soundings of the heart and diagnoses of the tongue.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 204
ISBN-13: 9780271026381
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0271026383
Kategori: Litteraturteori
Udg. Dato: 15 sep 1993
Længde: 13mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 sep 1993
Forfatter(e): Robert W. Greene
Forfatter(e) Robert W. Greene


Kategori Litteraturteori


ISBN-13 9780271026381


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 204


Udgave


Længde 13mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 229mm


Udg. Dato 15 sep 1993


Oplagsdato 15 sep 1993


Forlag Pennsylvania State University Press

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