Figures of literary discourse
By: Gérard Genette ; translated by Alan Sheridan ; introduction by Marie-Rose Logan.
Series: European perspectives
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: French literature -- History and criticism.; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of selections from: Figures. 1966-1972.
Table of contents: title: Structuralism and literary criticism; title: The obverse of signs; title: Figures; title: Principles of pure criticism; title: Poetic language, poetics of language; title: Rhetoric restrained; title: Frontiers of narrative; title: "Stendhal"; title: Flaubert's silences; title: Proust palimpsest; title: Proust and indirect language.