Mimologics

Fascinating and many-faceted, mimology is the basis of language sciences and incites occasional hilarity. Its complicated traditions require a sure grip but a light touch. One of the few scholars capable of giving mimology such genial attention is Gerard Genette. Genette treats matters as basic and staid as the alphabet and as reverberating as the letter R in ur-linguistics.

About the author

Thaïs E. Morgan is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University. To enhance the English-language edition further, Gerald Prince, author of Narrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction (Nebraska 1992) and A Dictionary of Narratology (Nebraska 1987), has provided a foreword briefly describing Genette's career and the particular values of this book.

Summary

Bridges mainstream literary history and Gérard Genette’s expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply learned, the book draws upon the traditions - both sane and eccentric - of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard Genette
• Assisted by: Thais E Morgan (Translation), Thais E. Morgan (Translation)
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1995
• EAN: 9780803270442
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7044-2
• No. of pages: 446
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 37 mm
• Weight: 762 g
• Series: Stages; Stages
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies