TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Constantina Thalia
AU  - Côté,Paul Raymond
TI  - Shaping the Novel: Receptions of the Essais 
SN  - 9781789206050
U1  - 843.009 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 1996///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - French fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I Colloquium As Text / Text As Colloquium: André Malraux’s Les Noyers de l’Altenburg --; Introduction --; 1. Situating the Work: An Overview --; 2. The Opening of the Son’s Account --; 3. The Father’s Cycle: Embedding / Telling --; 4. The Text’s Inverted Continuum: The Flanders Account --; 5. The Néocritique Colloquium and Les Noyers de l’Altenburg --; Part II Voices, Dreams, and Narrative Organization: Anne Hébert’s L’Enfant chargé de songes --; Introduction --; 6. The Drama of the Self --; 7. The Paris Narrative --; 8. The Duchesnay-Quebec City Narrative --; 9. Thematization and Structural Articulation: Writing and Art As Referents --; 10. Routes of Exploration --; Part III Absence, Inquiry, and Fabrication: Textual Representation in the Novels of Patrick Modiano --; Introduction --; 11. Surveying the Literary Terrain --; 12. Mnemosyne’s Spell --; 13. Specularity and the Void As Text --; 14. The Then and Now of Modiano’s Novelistic World --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The dialogue between form and message is intrinsic to the novel as genre. Yet the strength of that discourse has been shaken in the twentieth century by an increasing doubt about affirmations of any kind and a growing awareness of the relativity of knowledge and perception. The novel reflects this intellectual current by turning its glance inward to mediate on the creative act as a form of self-contained assertion of its own particular significance. The three writers on whom this study focuses, all major twentieth century authors, were chosen because they can be considered as important representatives of this novelistic self-consciousness. Building on André Malraux's vision of the colloquium as an open-ended verbal interchange, this study calls upon the voices of Anne Hérbert and Patrick Modiano to enter into a dialogue on novelistic form
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789206050?locatt=mode:legacy
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