Political ideologies often informed early twentieth-century French novels, creating a hybrid genre that is both "realist" and didactic: the roman thse. In this ground-breaking and critically acclaimed work, Susan Suleiman looks beyond the politics of novels by such authors as Malraux, Mauriac, Sartre, and Aragon, and examines their shared formal and generic features. Although the genre itself is considered antimodern, the critical and interpretive problems it raises are central to an understanding of both realist and modernist writing. "The great virtue of [Suleiman's] book is its ability to synthesize a range of theoretical ideas--whether formalist, structuralist or "reader-response' in the service of a clear and compelling critical argument."--Christopher Norris, The London Review of Books "This book is certainly one of the best examples of semiotic theory put to use for interpretation of literature and its relation to culture."--Thas Morgan, Genre
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Professor Suleiman's classic research on fiction is both a must read for scholars of literature and a riveting book for amateurs.Sharp analysis, clear and concise theoretical discourse, this book is a pleasure.
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ideological supersystem, positive exemplary apprenticeship, positive apprenticeship, actantial configuration, antagonistic hero, actantial category, apprenticeship story, dun chef, metadiscursive discourse, les beaux quartiers, semantic investment, apprenticeship stories, qualifying functions, actantial function, confrontation structure, confrontation model, encoded reader, intertextual context, overflow effect, actantial role, heroic group, confrontation story, excessive redundancy, exemplary subject, interpretive commentary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joseph Monneron, Leurs Figures, Antoine Bloyé, New Testament, Les Déracinés, Roland Barthes, Victor Ferrand, Dreyfus Affair, Communist Party, Action Française, Malraux's L'Espoir, Aden Arabie, Astiné Aravian, Gérard Genette, Popular Front, Castello Sforzesco, Drieu La Rochelle, First World War, Geneviève Idt, Les Mots, Lucien Fleurier, The Theory of the Novel New!
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ideological supersystem, positive exemplary apprenticeship, positive apprenticeship, actantial configuration, antagonistic hero, actantial category, apprenticeship story, dun chef, metadiscursive discourse, les beaux quartiers, semantic investment, apprenticeship stories, qualifying functions, actantial function, confrontation structure, confrontation model, encoded reader, intertextual context, overflow effect, actantial role, heroic group, confrontation story, excessive redundancy, exemplary subject, interpretive commentary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joseph Monneron, Leurs Figures, Antoine Bloyé, New Testament, Les Déracinés, Roland Barthes, Victor Ferrand, Dreyfus Affair, Communist Party, Action Française, Malraux's L'Espoir, Aden Arabie, Astiné Aravian, Gérard Genette, Popular Front, Castello Sforzesco, Drieu La Rochelle, First World War, Geneviève Idt, Les Mots, Lucien Fleurier, The Theory of the Novel New!
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