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An exploration of the ways fiction mimics the real and the links between cyber realities, fiction, and human beings. It also explores the foundations of mimeticism in order to explain the important effect fiction has on human beings.

Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette's expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply learned, the book draws upon the traditions - both sane and eccentric - of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature.

A memoir by the author who presents an account of the horrifying moment in July 1942 when her father, the rabbi of a small synagogue, was dragged by police from the family home on Rue Ordener in Paris, then transported to Auschwitz. It recounts the horrors of her childhood.

Werner Hamacher's witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities-and particularly academic philology-that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word eleven scholars take up the challenge presented by Hamacher's theses.

Focuses on the work of Raymond Queneau, one of the influential French novelists of the twentieth century. This work examines four issues in Queneau's novels - the nature of writing and of creation in general, the possibility or impossibility of knowledge, the relationship between the individual and the group, and the uses of power and control.

The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural production as such. Pictures into Words explores how this proliferation of graphic images has profoundly affected narrative writing in France.

A study of the legacy of the Western tradition of prison writing in twentieth-century French literature.

If not by nature, then by habit, people tend to match one thing with another - man and woman, laughter and tears, sickness and health, - thereby accentuating similarities and contrasts. This book demonstrates how pairing one object or idea with another generates the work of imagination, philosophy, and creative thinking of various kinds.

Narratology attempts to determine the rules or codes of composition of a narrative and to formulate the "grammar" of narrative, that is, the structures and formulas that recur across stories with very different content. This title provides the means for describing how the structures of narrative may affect certain audiences in certain ways.

Where would we be without flattery? Giving flattery light, attention, and care, this title treats readers to hundreds of historical examples drawn from the highest social circles in politics, romance, and religion, from the courts of Byzantium and China to Paris, Rome, and Washington, DC.

Presents a theory of meaning that the author calls effective semiotics - a theory that investigates the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual uses. This book advances its own comprehensive theory of signs while ably examining works by such philosophers and theorists as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Foucault, and Habermas.

Jordan Stump had often contemplated the relationship between a translation and ""the book itself"", ruminating on the intriguing inherent sameness and difference between the two. In The Other Book, Stump examines the ""other"" forms of a book and the ways in which they both mirror and depart from the original.

Explores how prisoners speak of their lives, and in particular how they speak of crime.

Includes eighteen pieces which are concerned either with universal aesthetic problems or with specific moments in the work of a well-known writer or artist. This title contains material related to the appreciation of beauty by one of the subtlest and original minds working in aesthetics.

The past fifteen years have witnessed the renewed presence of fascism in European political and cultural life. This title examines the resurgence of fascism from many angles, providing an essential view of this troubling moment in European political, cultural, and intellectual history.

Loiterature distracts attention the way a street conjurer diverts us with his sleight of hand

Written by one of the most intriguing contemporary writers in French literature, this book lets readers become party to the dilemma of 'challenging' literature in a singularly involving and amusing fashion. It presents an ironic perspective on the power of reading to produce meaning.

Examines the phenomenon of ""fuzziness"", both figurative and structural, in the contemporary French novel. Hippolyte examines a set of avant-garde French writers - Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Marie Redonnet, Eric Chevillard, Francois Bon, and Antoine Volodine - whose aesthetic differences, he argues, exemplify the current uses of vagueness in contemporary French literature.

One of Gerard Genette's most important works, this examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts. Genette describes the multiple ways a later text asks readers to read or remember an earlier one. In this regard, he treats the history and nature of parody, antinovels, pastiches, caricatures, commentary, allusion, imitations, and other textual relations.

The musical play of forms and sounds seems initially to have little to do with the mimetic, representative function of the traditional narrative genres. This title presents a study that focuses on Samuel Beckett, Michel Leiris, and Robert Pinget, French avant-garde novelists whose use of music is particularly striking.

Draws on world literature and contemporary events to show how vital quotations are, how they are collected and organised, and how deceptive they can be. Willis Goth Regier probes all these aspects, identifying fifty-nine types of quotations, including misquotations and anonymous sayings. Following the logic of quotology, Quotology concludes with famous last words.

Examines the minimalist trend in French writing since the early 1980s. Considering the practice of minimalism in other media, such as the plastic arts and music, this book proposes a theoretical model of minimalist literature. It also focuses on the work of a variety of contemporary French writers and a diversity of literary genres.