Novel and Film: Essays in Two Genres - Hardcover

Morrissette, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226540235 ISBN 13: 9780226540238

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1985

Synopsis

"Since the late 1950s," writes James R. Lawler in his Foreword to this volume, "Morrissette has stood as one of the most incisive explicators of the nouveau roman, of its past and present affiliations, of its interaction with the cinema."

The influential essays collected in Novel and Film display a wide range of critical and analytic approaches to the narrative aspects of the two genres. For all the variety of their subjects, from constructional forms such as interior duplication and game play to intertextual parallels with mathematics and topology, these essays together define a unified critical perspective, one that has brought fresh precision to the analysis of narrative techniques and that continues to raise questions of prime importance to contemporary fiction. Included is a complete bibliography of Morrissette's scholarly works.

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Morrissette is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the College at the University of Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0226540235
• ISBN 13: 9780226540238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 189