Projecting Wor(l)ds: The Descriptive in Theory and Fiction
The play on word and world in my title makes no great claim to originality, it simply underscores a tension inherent in literary description, one noted, mostly with unease, by generations of writers and critics: its referential anchoring, on the one hand, its tendency, on the other, to float free o...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/polysemes, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Polysèmes
2017
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | The play on word and world in my title makes no great claim to originality, it simply underscores a tension inherent in literary description, one noted, mostly with unease, by generations of writers and critics: its referential anchoring, on the one hand, its tendency, on the other, to float free of the world by foregrounding and revelling in its own linguistic substance. Alexandre Gefen sums up this paradox elegantly:À bien y regarder, la description constitue […] à la fois l’irruption « na... |
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