To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and ZolaUniversity of Delaware Press, 1995 - 260 In a unique demonstration of the critical possibilities of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola analyzes the intertextual conflicts between four monuments of nineteenth-century fiction: Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Charles Dicken's Bleak House, and Emile Zola's Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal. The book's fundamental hypothesis is that Dickens and Zola exemplify Hugo's conception of the novel - and of literary history - as a "graft" of one work upon another, producing hybrid mixtures of genres and styles of representation. For Hugo, a new work always "kills" its predecessor while at the same time preserving its memory. Thus writing becomes inlaid with writing; the text, a palimpsest. |
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... Babel , " a giant monument whose building blocks are books : Partout sur sa surface 1'art fait luxurier a 1'œil ses ... Babel du genre humain.1 This " second Tower of Babel " is Hugo's final and most impressive architec- tural metaphor ...
... Babel , " a giant monument whose building blocks are books : Partout sur sa surface 1'art fait luxurier a 1'œil ses ... Babel du genre humain.1 This " second Tower of Babel " is Hugo's final and most impressive architec- tural metaphor ...
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... Babel , the present incorporates the past , the newer forms include the older ones . The underlying assumption is that the relationship between later novels and their precursors always implies a critical act , including , but not ...
... Babel , the present incorporates the past , the newer forms include the older ones . The underlying assumption is that the relationship between later novels and their precursors always implies a critical act , including , but not ...
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... Babel . " Thus rather than simply " applying " a modern theory anachronistically to an earlier body of works , I show how Bakhtin's own formulations derive from his being steeped in a romantic tradition going back to the Schlegel ...
... Babel . " Thus rather than simply " applying " a modern theory anachronistically to an earlier body of works , I show how Bakhtin's own formulations derive from his being steeped in a romantic tradition going back to the Schlegel ...
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... Babel - like in structure . multilayered , ambiguous , decentralized , and open - ended , lacking in structural and stylistic unity . George Orwell's description of Dickens as a novelist " whose parts are greater than his wholes ...
... Babel - like in structure . multilayered , ambiguous , decentralized , and open - ended , lacking in structural and stylistic unity . George Orwell's description of Dickens as a novelist " whose parts are greater than his wholes ...
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... in which not one but many meaning - giving laws operate simultaneously : a giant , incomplete conglom- eration of texts , similar to Hugo's " second Tower of Babel . " II . Dialogism and the Nineteenth - Century Novel : 22 TO KILL A TEXT.
... in which not one but many meaning - giving laws operate simultaneously : a giant , incomplete conglom- eration of texts , similar to Hugo's " second Tower of Babel . " II . Dialogism and the Nineteenth - Century Novel : 22 TO KILL A TEXT.
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Bakhtins Dialogue with Hugo | 33 |
NotreDame de Paris The Hybrid Novel | 47 |
Formal Incongruity in Dickenss Bleak House | 85 |
Fiction Fair or Fiction Foul? Bleak House and NotreDame de Paris | 138 |
Ceci tuera cela The Cathedral in the Marketplace | 176 |
Pregnant Death Germinal and the Triumph of the Hybrid Novel | 192 |
Notes | 224 |
Works Cited | 245 |
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To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston Widok fragmentu - 1995 |
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aesthetic Ainsworth ambiguous architecture artistic authorial discourse becomes belly Bleak House bourgeois carnival Caryl Emerson Catherine Chancery chapter characters Charles Dickens Chesney Wold church Claude Frollo Claude's coexistence concept critics Dickens's dramatic Emile Zola epic Esmeralda Esther Etienne Etienne's Florent free indirect speech genre Germinal Gothic graft Gringoire's grotesque realism Halles heteroglossia Hillis Miller Hugo's Notre-Dame Ibid interpretation intertextual italics added Jarndyce Lady Dedlock language literary history literature meaning metaphor Michael Holquist Mikhail Bakhtin miners mirror Morson and Emerson narrative Notre-Dame de Paris novelistic original parody past Pierre Gringoire plot poetics Préface de Cromwell pregnant death present Quasimodo Rabelais reading relation relationship represented rewriting rhetoric romantic romantic realism Saint-Eustache scene Scott Seebacher speech story structure style stylistic symbol theme theory tion Tower of Babel trace tradition tuera Tulkinghorn Ventre de Paris Victor Hugo voice writing Zola Zola's
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Strona 21 - Genre is reborn and renewed at every new stage in the development of literature and in every individual work of a given genre. This constitutes the life of the genre. [...] A genre lives in the present, but always remembers its past, its beginning. Genre is a representative of creative memory in the process of literary development.
Strona 20 - Unitary language constitutes the theoretical expression of the historical processes of linguistic unification and centralization, an expression of the centripetal forces of language. A unitary language is not something given [dan] but is always in essence posited [zadan] — and at every moment of its linguistic life it is opposed to the realities of heteroglossia.
Strona 17 - ... an artistically organized system for bringing different languages in contact with one another, a system having as its goal the illumination of one language by means of another, the carving-out of a living image of another language.