Irony and the "Order of Discourse" in Flaubert

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ID4788014
AuthorsRainer Warning, Michael Morton (0000-0002-3649-9013)
Year1982
Volume13
Issue2
Pages253
Publication date1982-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Literary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/468912
OpenAlexW2330969206
LanguageEN
Citations received3

T HE AIM of the following essay is to show, through consideration of Flaubert, constitutive principles of a type of narrative discourse to which modern theory of narrative opens itself only hesitatingly. The reasons for that hesitation lie in the frames of reference chosen by this theory for its articulation; and with respect to these it is necessary, here at the outset, to explain some concepts. When Roland Barthes, in his programmatic Introduction a l'analyse structurale du recit,' characterized narrative as a specific type of discourse, it is true that he meant a speech that transcends the individual sentence; nonetheless, its theoretical frame of reference continues to be defined linguistically as a linguistics of discourse homologous to the linguistics of sentences. In terms of the Saussurean opposition of parole and langue, the theory of narrative discourse is conceived as a narrative langue, i.e., as a closed model of constitutive principles to be developed deductively, whereby the immanence postulate of such a deduction leads in consistent fashion to the exclusion of what Barthes himself calls the situation of the narrative, to the exclusion of its social and cultural context: Narration can indeed receive

Art · Economics · Epistemology · Irony · Linguistics · Literature · Order (exchange) · French Literature and Criticism · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy

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