Narrative Discourse

Literature & Fiction

Gérard Genette

History & Criticism

Wiley/Blackwell

NARRATIVE DISCOURSE

WileyBlackwell

Figures 1 (French Edition)

French & European Pubns

The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence

What art is―its very nature―is the subject of this book by one of the most distinguished continental theorists writing today. Informed by the aesthetics of Nelson Goodman and referring to a wide range of cultures, contexts, and media, The Work of Art seeks to discover, explain, and define how art exists and how it works. To this end, Gérard Genette explores the distinction between a work of art's immanence―its physical presence―and transcendence―the experience it induces. That experience may go far beyond the object itself.
Genette situates art within the broad realm of human practices, extending from the fine arts of music, painting, sculpture, and literature to humbler but no less fertile fields such as haute couture and the culinary arts. His discussion touches on a rich array of examples and is bolstered by an extensive knowledge of the technology involved in producing and disseminating a work of art, regardless of whether that dissemination is by performance, reproduction, printing, or recording. Moving beyond examples, Genette proposes schemata for thinking about the different manifestations of a work of art. He also addresses the question of the artwork's duration and mutability.

Arts & Photography

G. M. Goshgarian

Cornell University Press

Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method

Gerard Genette builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an anlaysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly 'Remembrance of Things Past.' Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents and techniques of narrative and illustrates them by referring to literary works in many languages.

Figures I (Collection "Tel Quel") (French Edition)

Editions Du Seuil

Seuils (French Edition)

Fiction et diction , precede de ' Introduction à l'architexte ' (French Edition)

Discours du récit\nCe volume réunit deux " essais de méthode " : Discours du récit, contenu en 1972 dans Figures III, et Nouveau discours du récit, publié en 1983. Le second présente une mise à jour théorique du premier, à la lumière des commentaires qu'il a suscités, et des avancées de la recherche qui en sont résultées.\nÉlaborés à partir d'une étude rigoureuse du régime narratif de la Recherche du temps perdu, ces deux ouvrages complémentaires sont aujourd'hui largement considérés comme fondateurs d'une des disciplines majeures de la poétique : la narratologie, ou analyse structurale des formes et des procédés du récit, particulièrement dans le champ de la fiction littéraire.\nGérard Genette (1930-2018)\nCritique littéraire et théoricien de la littérature, fondateur et directeur de la revue Poétique et de la collection du même nom, au Seuil, il est l'auteur d'une œuvre qui a fait date, consacrée à l'exploration des différentes formes littéraires (de Figures I en 1966 à Postscript en 2016).

Discours du récit

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Umbrales (Spanish Edition)

Siglo XXI Editores Mexico

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