Author : Jean H. Duffy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846316669
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Thresholds of Meaning by : Jean H. Duffy
Download or read book Thresholds of Meaning written by Jean H. Duffy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a number of broad surveys of contemporary French fiction that have appeared in the last decade or so, the question of the nouveau roman's literary legacy remains an under-researched field. Thresholds of Meaning offers evidence not only of a reworking of certain traditional themes, but also of a reinstatement of meaning at the center of literary inquiry. Drawing on the fields of sociology, anthropology, and psychology, Jean Duffy argues that this preoccupation with meaning concerns not only the processes of its production within a work, but also the processes by which it is produced in the real world, including the various linguistic and gestural codes by which a community communicates, the customs a community assumes, and the rituals that it observes.