Structures of Metaphor in Robbe-Grillet's
Last Year in Marienbad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Dittmar (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 215 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/302986 |
| OpenAlex | W2319291875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Robbe-Grillet's critical essays show him to be an energetic opponent of the dominant literary tradition and a combative proponent of the French New Novel. Yet for all his self-consciously polemic stance, Robbe-Grillet does not clarify what the New is to accomplish. For New and his other essays are not a manifesto or a guide to his fiction and films, and they can even be quite misleading.1 In particular, the notion that the new fiction is objective, cleansed of all metaphoric and allegoric allusions, has generated misconceptions and erroneous readings of his texts. His most quoted essay, Nature, Tragedy, Humanism (New pp. 49-75) argues that metaphor and allegory are anthropomorphic projections which create a fog of indistinct significations. A Future For The Novel and On Several Obsolete Notions (NN, pp. 15-24, 25-47) put forth the same argument. Things are simply there, and such meanings as people discover beneath their surface are inventions which ascribe coherence and significance to a neutral and non-signifying universe. (This position echoes Ortega y Gassett's call for a dehumanized art which is purged of metaphoric resonance and subterranean communication.) Robbe-Grillet's critique of subjectivity and
Art · Linguistics · Metaphor · French Literature and Criticism · Historical and Literary Analyses · History · Philosophy · Renaissance Literature and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |