Les paysages nécessaires de William Gaddis

The purpose of this paper is to question the significance of the representation of nature in William Gaddis’s fourth novel, A Frolic of His Own, by focusing on the narrative and descriptive sequences that seem to offer a different kind of textual landscape compared with the dialogues and legal doc...

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Auteur principal: Félix, Brigitte
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Langue:Français
Publié: 2005
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spelling cairn-RFEA_106_95RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2005-4-page-78?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.106.95 Les paysages nécessaires de William Gaddis Félix, Brigitte2005 A Frolic of His OwndescriptionintertextenaturepaysageW. GaddisA Frolic of His Ownintertextualitylandscapenature-writingW. Gaddisfre Revue française d’études américaines | 106 | 4 | 2005-12-01 | p. 78-95 | 0397-7870 RFEA_10690 The purpose of this paper is to question the significance of the representation of nature in William Gaddis’s fourth novel, A Frolic of His Own, by focusing on the narrative and descriptive sequences that seem to offer a different kind of textual landscape compared with the dialogues and legal documents the narrative is replete with. After studying what kind of nature is actually present in the novel, we will try to show that what is at stake is a poetics of fiction writing in the way “nature” is made into a literary and necessary landscape that is the result of a complex textual fabrication.Cairn free access
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topic A Frolic of His Own
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paysage
W. Gaddis
A Frolic of His Own
intertextuality
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W. Gaddis
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Les paysages nécessaires de William Gaddis
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paysage
W. Gaddis
A Frolic of His Own
intertextuality
landscape
nature-writing
W. Gaddis
description The purpose of this paper is to question the significance of the representation of nature in William Gaddis’s fourth novel, A Frolic of His Own, by focusing on the narrative and descriptive sequences that seem to offer a different kind of textual landscape compared with the dialogues and legal documents the narrative is replete with. After studying what kind of nature is actually present in the novel, we will try to show that what is at stake is a poetics of fiction writing in the way “nature” is made into a literary and necessary landscape that is the result of a complex textual fabrication.
author Félix, Brigitte
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title Les paysages nécessaires de William Gaddis
title_short Les paysages nécessaires de William Gaddis
title_full Les paysages nécessaires de William Gaddis
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title_full_unstemmed Les paysages nécessaires de William Gaddis
title_sort les paysages nécessaires de william gaddis
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