Alain Robbe-Grillet

Robbe-Grillet, Alain - älăNˈ rôb-grēyāˈ, 1922–, French novelist and filmmaker, b. Brest. Robbe-Grillet is considered the originator of the French nouveau roman [new novel], in which story is subordinated to structure and the significance of objects is stressed above that of human motivation or action. His first novel, Les Read More...

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The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet on His Films
by Anthony N. Fragola, Roch C. Smith. 190 pgs.

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In this revealing series of interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet, Anthony N. Fragola and Roch C. Smith provide an intimate, perceptive profile of the artist. Known primarily as a writer whose experimental novels have had a major influence on the writing of fiction in the twentieth century, Robbe-Grillet is also a highly acclaimed filmmaker whose works include Last Year at Marienbad, L'Immortelle, Trans-Europ-Express, and The Progressive Slidings of Pleasure. Robbe-Grillet is a visionary who seeks to discover unfamiliar ways of seeing and interpreting. His films, like his novels, challenge the limits of expected narrative structures and question the comfortable assumptions of conventional realism. In the interviews, conducted from 1982 until 1991, Fragola and Smith examine all nine of the films that Robbe-Grillet has created, specifically exploring the cultural milieu to which they are so closely and problematically related. This is the first such work in which Robbe-Grillet comprehensively discusses his views on aesthetics, philosophy, sociology, and literature as well as on filmmaking. The reader is encouraged to view him from a variety of perspectives: as the auteur who probes various stylistic techniques and devices, especially the use of eroticism as a structural metaphor; as the international artist who discusses the complex structures, allusions, and thematic intentions that occur in his films; as the detached observer exploring his own use of stereotypes and myths; and as the impassioned creator who defends and explains his position concerning the controversial depiction of sado-eroticism in his films. This book conveys a wide awareness and keen appreciation of Robbe-Grillet'sfilms, especially to American audiences where they are least known. Certain to be a lasting tribute to Robbe-Grillet's cinematic work, it will encourage informed discussion among students and scholars. The book includes a galle

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The French New Autobiographies: Sarraute, Duras, and Robbe Grillet
by Raylene L. Ramsay. 263 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One New Autobiographies for Old?

Two the Art of the Impossible

Three Rewriting History, Story, Self

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Four the Second World War as History and Story, Text and Pre-Text, Order and Chaos in Le Miroir Qui Revient

Five the Angel in Robbe-Grillet's Mirror Writing, Power, and the Feminine in Angélique Ou L'enchantement and Les Derniers Jours Do Corinthe

Nathalie Surraute

Six Voice(s) in Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance and the Sex of the Text

Seven Them and Us Between Intersubjectivity and Intrasubjectivity in Sarraute's Tu Ne T'aimes Pas

Marguerite Duras

Eight Through a Textual Glass, Darkly the Masochistic in the Feminine Self in Marguerite Duras' Emily L.

Nine (re)writing Power in Duras' L'amant De La Chine Du Nord

Afterword

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Surrealism Revisited: Style and Technique in Robbe-Grillet's La Belle Captive and Eden and after, in Symposium
by Anthony Fragola. 14 pgs.

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Turning Words into Colors: Robbe-Grillet's Visual Language, in Mosaic (Winnipeg)
by Laurent Dechery. 15 pgs.

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The Internalized Reality of Robbe-Grillet, in Critique
by George H. Szanto. 15 pgs.

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Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy (Chap. 2 "Diagnosing Fantastic Autism: Kafka, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet")
by Lance Olsen. 140 pgs.

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This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise.

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Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Series Editor: Marshall Tymn

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Acknowledgments

1: Prelude: Nameless Things and Thingless Names

2: Diagnosing Fantastic Autism: Kafka, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet

3: I Stink, Therefore I (s)am: Functions, Fantasy, and Beckett

4: Metamorphosis and Fuentes' Aura

5: Pynchon's New Nature: Indeterminacy and the Crying of Lot 49

6: Misfires in Eden: García Márquez and Narrative Frustration

7: The Presence of Absence: Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians

8: Postlude

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-Century Fiction ("Robbe-Grillet's The Erasers: Readers in Search of Oedipus" begins on p. 65)
by Debra A. Moddelmog. 176 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reading Myth from Joyce to Pynchon

Chapter 1: Myths and Their Signs

Chapter 2: A Poetics for Myth in Fiction

Chapter 3: The Power of the Solitary Mytheme: The Anti-Sphinx of Alternative Wastelands

Chapter 4: Mythemes and Questions of Genre: The Blindness of the Private Eye in Antidetective Fiction

Chapter 5: Reading Myths and Mythemes After Freud: From Oedipal Incest to Oedipal Insight

Chapter 6: The Epistemology of the Oedipus Myth

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Works Cited

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The Parameters of Postmodernism ("Rainer, Robbe-Grillet, Reich, and the Turn to Interobjectivity" begins on p. 85 and "Robbe-Grillet and the Return to the Subjective Type of Writing" begins on p. 88)
by Nicholas Zurbrugg. 183 pgs.

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Anti-Art or Ante-Art?

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Monumental Art or Submonumental Art?

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Eagleton and the Apocalyptic Fallacy

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Introducing the B-Effect

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Introducing the C-Eftect

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Deploring/Exploring Hyperspace: Jameson and Cage

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Stupefaction or Enlivenment?

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Benjamin and the Loss of Aura

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Barthes, Belsey, and the Death Of> the Author

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Bürger and the Death of the Avant-Garde

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Bonito-Oliva, Baudrillard, and the Collapse of the New

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Beckett, Brecht, and the Attractions of Antinarrative

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Beckett's Poetics of Failure/Brecht's Poetics of Interrogation

Beckett, Brecht, and the Groan of the Text

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Warhol and the Grin of the Text

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Eagleton, Jameson, and Dehistoricized Culture

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Cage, Kostelanetz, and Value Judgments

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Jameson, Rauschenberg, and Premature Exasperation

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Cage, Rauschenberg, and Ryman

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Cage and Consumption

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Collective Narrative and the Struggle with Simulacra

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Depersonalized Culture or Repersonalized Culture?

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Cage and the Antilogic of the Text

Beckett, Cage, and Nothing

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Beckett, Cage, and Programmatic Composition

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Purposeful Purposelessness or Nothing to Be Done?

Jameson, Bourdieu, and the Destruction of Art and Taste

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Chion, Cage, and New Aesthetic Rationales

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Postmodernism's Purist Aesthetic

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Postmodernism's Hybrid Aesthetic

Feldman, Crazy Contradiction, and the Conceptual, Artistic Life

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Pure "H" -- Habermas and Communicative Rationality

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Beuys, Adorno, and the Silence of Marcel Duchamp

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Beuys, Cage, Buchloh, and the B-B Effect

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Jappe, Jameson, and the Concept of Utopia

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Bense, Concrete Poetry, and the Dwindling of the Poetic Element

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Chopin, Human Vitality, and Technological Civilization

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Conz and the New Saints of the Avant-Garde

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A Problem in Design: Lax and Mann

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Postmodernism at Two Speeds: Hassan, Janco, and Seuphor

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Rainer, Robbe-Grillet, Reich, and the Turn to Interobjectivity

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Robbe-Grillet and the Re-Turn to the Subjective Type of Writing

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Rainer and the Re-Turn to Identity

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Reich and the Re-Turn to Historical Realities

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Multimedia Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Gaburo and Ashley

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Monk and the Re-Turn to Recurrence

Umberto Eco and the Re-Turn to the Middle Ages

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Grass and the Destruction of Mankind

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Grass, Mann, and the Re-Turn to Forbidden Literature

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Ernst, Carrington, and the Re-Turn of Surrealism

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Carrington, Cage, Beuys, and the Poetics of Resistance

Cage, Carrington, Barthes, Burroughs, Bense: From Artha to Moksha

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Cage, Wolf, and the Re-Turn to the Third Alternative

Wolf, Mann, and the Authority of Literary Genres

Müller, Beuys, and the Elevation of the Berlin Wall

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Müller, Brecht, and the Petrification of Hope

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Müller, Wilson, and the Re-Turn to the Classics

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Huyssen and the Endgame of the Avant-Garde

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Huyssen, Popper, and the Electrification of the Avant-Garde

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BuñUel, Breton, Benjamin, Baudrillard, and the Myths of Mechanical Depersonalization

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Delillo, Müller, Lyotard, Kroker, and the Panic Sensibility

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Ballard, the Kindness of Women, and Catharsis

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Beyond the Disappearance of Value: Anderson and Acker

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Toward Effective Communication: Kruger and Holzer

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Appropriation, Neutralization, and Reconciliation: Tillers and Johnson

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Independent Internationalism: Finlay and Lax

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Anderson and American Active Freedom

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Glass and Wilson: Alienation Effect or Empathy Effect?

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Burroughs, Walker, and the Pattern of Chaos

Beckett, Warrilow, and the Clarity of Spirit

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Considered in Diagrammatic Summary: The Phases of Postmodernism

The Modes of Modernism and Postmodernism

Baudrillard or Cage? Degeneration or Affirmation?

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Burt, Wendt, and the Positive Parameters of Postmodernism I

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Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts ("Djinn by Alain Robbe-Grillet: Or the Architecture of the Fantastic" begins on p. 25)
by Michael R. Collings. 118 pgs.

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Collings has selected the best of the conference proceedings reflecting the intent of the conference to discover aspects of the fantastic in every branch of the arts. The twelve essays commence with theoretical discussions of the fantastic as it relates to other genres and elements of life. The second section examines individual authors including Peter Beagle, French fantasists Alain Robbe-Grillet and Felix Labisse, and Spanish authors Amado Nervo and Jose Maria Merino. The third section discusses issues in contemporary science fiction as seen in the work of Samuel R. Delaney, Brian W. Aldiss, Ursula K. Le Guin, Frederik Pohl, and Gregory Shreve.

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THE FANTASTIC: THEORETICAL APPROACHES

Fantasy as an Anti-Utopian Mode

Swiss Animal Satire as Psychological Safety Valve

FANTASY: AUTHOR STUDIES

"A Myth, a Memory, a Will-o'-the- Wish": Peter Beagle's Funny Fantasy

Djinn by Alain Robbe-Grillet: Or the Architecture of the Fantastic

Felix Labisse: A Fantastic Bestiary

Reincarnation and Metempsychosis in Amado Nervo's Fiction of Fantasy

Reflections on the Writing of a Fantastic Narrative

SCIENCE FICTION: AUTHOR STUDIES

Samuel R. Delany and John Wilkins: Artificial Languages, Science, and Science Fiction

Last Orders and First Principles for the Interpretation of Aldiss's Enigmas

Change, Stasis, and Entropy in the Works of Brian W. Aldiss

Theme and Narrative Structure in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Freder ik Pohl's Gateway

Intimate Circuits: Man-Computer Communion in Coils

Bibliography

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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The Novelist as Philosopher: Studies in French Fiction, 1935-1960 ("Alain Robbe-Grillet: B. 1922" begins on p. 230)
by John Cruickshank. 262 pgs.

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Introduction

Some Aspects Of French Fiction 1935-1960

Precursors

Georges Bernanos 1888-1948

AndrÉ Malraux B. 1901

Successors

Raymond Queneau B. 1903

Jean-Paul Sartre B. 1905

Samuel Beckett B. 1906

Maurice Blanchot B. 1907

Simone De Beauvoir B. 1908

Jean Cayrol B. 1911

Albert Camus 1913-1960

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Postmodernist Fiction ("Robbe-Grillet" begins on p. 13)
by Brian McHale. 272 pgs.

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In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertake to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompassed forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New novel, concrete prose and science fiction.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

Part One: PRELIMINARIES

Part Two: WORLDS

Part Three: CONSTRUCTION

Part Four: WORDS

Part Five: GROUNDINGS

Part Six: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE POSTMODERNISM

Coda: THE SENSE OF JOYCEýS ENDINGS

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Literature Pursued by Politics, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction
by Juan Goytisolo. 4 pgs.

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