| Queneau's Fictional Worlds Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Editor), Bastin, Nina (Author) |
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ISBN: 3906768325 ISBN-13: 9783906768328 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $96.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 843.912 |
| LCCN: 2002070936 |
| Series: Modern French Identities |
| Physical Information: 292 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Queneau's novels are extremely popular for their wit and linguistic ingenuity but they also pose a serious challenge to the reader's reconstruction of the fictional world, which can often go unrecognised. This study takes us back to the fundamental elements of Queneau's worlds, demonstrating how his idiosyncratic style can affect the reader's mental processing of the text ('world-building'). It also demonstrates the internal organisation of Queneau's fictional worlds. Drawing on cognitive discourse models and the philosophical notion of 'possible worlds', the book provides both comparative and general analysis of Queneau's novels and case studies of Le Vol d'Icare, Les Fleurs bleues, and Loin de Rueil, exposing the resistance that these worlds present to stable cognitive reconstruction, notably through the subversion of world boundaries ('world-play'), and the positing of impossible spaces ('heterotopiae'). |