Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, 19th Century French Literature - Literary Criticism, 20th Century French Literature - Literary Criticism
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Overview
Since Julia Kristeva first coined the term 'intertextuality,' explanations of the way literature incorporates other literature have produced few distinctions and much obscurity. In contrast, Allan H. Pasco's Allusion looks at the way allusion works in specific fictions and how it affects the process of reading. Drawing from a wide range of French authors, including Flaubert, Stendhal, Proust, Balzac, Zola, Sartre, and Robbe-Grillet, Pasco uses a number of examples to show how allusions work, how texts integrate other texts to create new metaphorical constructs.Editorials
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Pasco (literature, U. of Kansas) looks at the way allusion works in specific fictions and how it affects the process of reading. He draws on French authors such as Flaubert and Balzac to show how texts integrate other texts to create new metaphorical constructs, and to discuss perception of irony, distortions in understanding, the ways in which allusion can illuminate a theme, and parallel allusions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 15, 1994
Publisher
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1994.
Pages
247
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780802004499