The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction

by Ann Jefferson

This book, first published in 1984, is based on readings of the novels of three major representative practitioners of the nouveau roman. Since its beginnings in the 1950s the nouveau roman has posed a major challenge to the theory of the novel because its practitioners claimed to have jettisoned the mainstays of nineteenth-century fiction: plot, character and the representation of reality. Consequently the nouveau roman has tended to generate radical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052127866X
• ISBN13: 9780521278669
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"