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Negotiating the New in the French Novel Building Contexts for Fictional Worlds
By Teresa Bridgeman
Copyright 1998
288 Pages
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Routledge
286 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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In Negotiating the New in the French Novel Teresa Bridgeman applies insights from pragmatic theory to the French novel in order to examine its discourse conventions. Focussing on texts by some of the greatest and most innovative French novelists - Diderot, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Celine, Sarraute and Perec - Bridgeman analyses how these authors established their own conventions, challenged... Read more
1. Thresholds 2. Dynamics of world-play between contexts, texts and participants: Diderot's Jacques le Fataliste 3. 'The novel' as we know it?: Balzac's Le Pére Goriot 4. The written artifact and the authority of absence: Flaubert's Madame Bovary 5. The doubly-authorised text. Personal responsibility and social roles: Zola's L'Assommoir 6. Self-assertion and the dynamics of power: Céline's Voyage au Bout de la Nuit 7. The novel as mediation: Sarraute's Portrait D'un Inconnu 8. Further dynamics of world-play: Perec's W ou le Souvenir D'Enfance Afterwoed: Genres, participants and territorial behaviour
Biography
Teresa Bridgeman
