Queneau’s Fictional Worlds
by
Nina Bastin
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Modern French Identities
ISBN-10
3906768325
ISBN-13
9783906768328
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint
Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 12th, 2002
Print length
291 Pages
Weight
430 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 24.60 x 1.90 cms
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Queneau’s novels are extremely popular for their wit and linguistic ingenuity but they also pose a serious challenge to the reader’s reconstruction of the fictional world, which can often go unrecognised. This study takes us back to the fundamental elements of Queneau’s worlds, demonstrating how his idiosyncratic style can affect the reader’s mental processing of the text (‘world-building’). It also demonstrates the internal organisation of Queneau’s fictional worlds. Drawing on cognitive discourse models and the philosophical notion of ‘possible worlds’, the book provides both comparative and general analysis of Queneau’s novels and case studies of Le Vol d’Icare, Les Fleurs bleues, and Loin de Rueil, exposing the resistance that these worlds present to stable cognitive reconstruction, notably through the subversion of world boundaries (‘world-play’), and the positing of impossible spaces (‘heterotopiae’).
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