A Constant Journey: The Fiction of Monique Wittig: 3 (A Chicago Classic) - Hardcover

Ostrovsky, Erika

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809316420 ISBN 13: 9780809316427

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991

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Book by Ostrovsky Professor Erika

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From the creation of a neuter pronoun in her earliest work, "L Opoponax, "to the confusion of genres in her most recent fiction, "Virgile, non, "Monique Wittig uses literary subversion and invention to accomplish what Erika Ostrovsky appropriately defines as "renversement, "the annihilation of existing literary canons and the creation of highly innovative constructs.Erika Ostrovsky explores those aspects of Wittig s work that best illustrate her literary approach. Among the countless revolutionary devices that Wittig uses to achieve "renversement "are the feminization of masculine gender names, the reorganization of myth patterns, and the replacement of traditional punctuation with her own system of grammatical emphasis and separation. It is the unexpected quantity and quality of such literary devices that make reading Monique Wittig s fiction a fresh and rewarding experience. Such literary devices have earned Wittig the acclaim of her critics and peersMarguerite Duras, Mary McCarthy, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Claude Simon, to name a few.While analyzing the intrinsic value of each of Wittig s fictions separately, Erika Ostrovsky traces the progressive development of Wittig s major literary devices as they appear and reappear in her fictions. Ostrovsky maintains that the seeds of those innovations that appear in Wittig s most recent texts can be found as far back as "L Opoponax. "This evidence of progression supports Ostrovsky s theory that clues to Wittig s future endeavors can be found in her past."

Biografía del autor

Erika Ostrovsky is Professor of French at New York University and author of "Under the Sign of Ambiguity: Saint-John Perse/Alexis Leger."

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0809316420
• ISBN 13: 9780809316427
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216