The Limits of Narrative by Nathaniel Wing
This book examines the problematic area of narrative structure under conditions of severe stress. Each of the four authors is shown to be concerned with the tension between narrative coherence as a desirable goal and an unfortunate check placed on the 'free' play of fantasy. This tension produces powerful disruptions of literary form in the lyric (Baudelaire, Mallarm ), prose poetry (Baudelaire, Rimbaud) and the novel (Flaubert) which are examined here. A final chapter draws out some of the historical implications of these readings in a discussion of Baudelaire's and Flaubert's trials for obscenity and of Marx's writings on France from 1848 to 1871. Professor Wing demonstrates that all these texts retain an unstable balance between earlier modes of thought, feeling and expression and the depersonal, fragmented modern text. He revises notions of modernity and invites us to reconsider traces of earlier forms of writing in more canonically modern texts.-
Sartre: Literature and Theory
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Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 17601820
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Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France
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System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida
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The Death of Stephane Mallarme
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Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France
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Tradition and Desire
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Flaubert and the Gift of Speech
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Politeness and its Discontents
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French Renaissance Tragedy
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Pascal and the Arts of the Mind
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Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose
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Genealogies of the Text
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Proust, the Body and Literary Form
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Reading the French Enlightenment
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Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
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Politics and Narratives of Birth
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Reading Paul Valery
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Pictorialist Poetics
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Poetry and Fable
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Sartre and 'Les Temps Modernes'
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The Knowledge of Ignorance
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Irony and Ideology in Rabelais
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Flaubert's Characters
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Leo Spitzer
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Baudelaire and Intertextuality
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Corneille, Classicism and the Ruses of Symmetry
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Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing
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Mallarme, Manet and Redon
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Baudelaire in 1859
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Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis
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Claude Simon
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History and Ideology in Proust
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The Object of Art
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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau
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The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance
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Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel
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Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715
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Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry
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Where Flaubert Lies
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521114158 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521114152 |
| Title | The Limits of Narrative |
| Author | Nathaniel Wing |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In French |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2009-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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