French literary theory today
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by R. Carter.
Contributors: Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York; Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Criticism -- France; Poetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: French poetics today / Tzvetan Todorov; title: Criticism and poetics / Gerard Genette; title: The reality effect / Roland Barthes; title: Models of the literary sentence / Michael Riffaterre; title: The strategy of form / Laurent Jenny; title: A theory of the figure / Jean Cohen; title: Parallelism and deviation in poetry / Nicolas Ruwet; title: A critique of the motif / Claude Bremond; title: What is a description? / Philippe Hamo; title: On the circularity of song / Paul Zumthor; title: The autobiographical contract / Philippe Lejeune; title: A complication of text: the Illuminations / Tzvetan Todorov.