Rereadings: Eight Early French Novels - Softcover

Philip Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0917786327 ISBN 13: 9780917786327

Publisher: Summa Pubns, 1984

Synopsis

These essays that examine eight novels, ranging from 'Le roman comique' to 'Les Liaisons dangereuses', have in common their emphasis on the literarity of the text rather than its referentiality. They draw attention not only to the structuring patterns of each novel, such as chronology and theme, but also to aspects of intertextuality (allusion, reference codes, etc.), and in particular to figuration: that is, both metaphorical constructions and function of narrative rhetoric, which provides insight into the ways the fiction text 'represents' itself.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Stewart is professor emeritus at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of 'Imitation and Illusion in the French Memoir-Novel, 1700-1750'; 'The Art of Make-Believe'; (Yale University Press, 1969), 'Le Masque et la parole: le langage de l'amour au XVIIe siecle '(Jose Corti, 1973), and many other scholarly publications.

Review:

...Teachers and students alike should gain pleasure and profit from these perceptive rereadings... --French Studies

...It is a great virtue of Stewart's flexible and fruitful method that we feel impelled to do that work ourselves , with the help of the keys he has uncovered and of those that we can now ouselves more easily tease out of the text... --The French Review

...Ce dosage aura le merite de satisfaire les attentes des lecteurs de tous bords, et cela d'autant plus que la qualite de la documentation est tres bonne... --Revue d'Histoire litteraire de la France

About this edition

• Publisher: Summa Pubns
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0917786327
• ISBN 13: 9780917786327
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263