Novel and film : essays in two genres / Bruce Morrissette ; with a foreword by James R. Lawler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrissette, Bruce, 1911-2000.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 1922-2008--Criticism and interpretation.

Robbe-Grillet, Alain.

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 1922-2008.

Criticism and interpretation.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Summary:

"Since the late 1950s," writes James R. Lawler in his Foreword to this volume, "Morrissette has stood as one of the most incisive explicators of the "nouveau roman," of its past and present affiliations, of its interaction with the cinema." The influential essays collected in "Novel and Film" display a wide range of critical and analytic approaches to the narrative aspects of the two genres. For all the variety of their subjects, from constructional forms such as interior duplication and game play to intertextual parallels with mathematics and topology, these essays together define a unified critical perspective, one that has brought fresh precision to the analysis of narrative techniques and that continues to raise questions of prime importance to contemporary fiction. Included is a complete bibliography of Morrissette's scholarly works.

Contents:

Post-modern generative fiction

Aesthetic response to novel and film

The cinema novel

The case of Robbe-Grillet

International aspects of the Nouveau Roman

Topology and the Nouveau Roman

Modes of "Point of view"

The alienated "I"

Narrative "You"

Interior duplication

Games and game structures in Robbe-Grillet

The evolution of view-point in Robbe-Grillet.

Notes:

"Bruce Morrissette: a bibliography": pages 179-181.

ISBN:

0226540243

OCLC:

11677122