
Claude Simon
Writing the Visible
Celia Britton(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 25. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-0-521-11457-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is a major study of the Nobel prize-winning French novelist Claude Simon. Simon is a complex figure: for all that he writes in a distinctively modern fictional tradition (exemplified by Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet), his novels contain strong elements of visual representation alongside a very different king of free-floating, anti-realist writing. This combination and tension between vivd representation of experience and the free play of language is a focus of Dr Britton's book. She exposes the limitations of literary theory in dealing with Simon's novels and reveals how concepts from psychoanalysis can illuminate this problematic juxtaposition of vision and text.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-11457-8 (9780521114578)
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10/1987
Cambridge University Press
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10/1987
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Content
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The theoretical context; 2. Vision and textuality; 3. The mirror and the letter: modalities of the subject; 4. Words and pictures: the text and its other; 5. The unseen and the unsaid; 6. The invisibility of history; 7. Fiction word by word; Notes; Bibliography; Index.