Naming and Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau

Author:   Jordan Stump
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
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9780803242685


Pages:   193
Publication Date:   01 October 1998
Format:   Hardback
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Naming and Unnaming is a dazzling study that centers on the work of Raymond Queneau, one of the most influential French novelists of the twentieth century. Jordan Stump takes as his subject the many implications—epistemological, political, literary, sometimes even physical—of naming in Queneau’s remarkable novels. From the idea that the names of characters offer a more immediate and perhaps even a more intimate understanding of their souls than we might glean from their words and deeds has grown the broad field of inquiry known as literary onomastics. Stump argues that there is another approach to the literary proper name, one that concentrates not on the meaning of names but on the meaning of the use of those names—the ways in which the characters and narrator of a novel address or refer to others. Naming and Unnaming considers the literary and philosophical implications of names and naming. Stump examines four issues in Queneau’s novels—the nature of writing and of creation in general, the possibility or impossibility of knowledge, the relationship between the individual and the group, and the uses of power and control—in relation to which naming emerges as a force both powerful and utterly impotent. By exploring these forces and their evocation, Stump reveals the complexity of both the act of naming and the novels of Queneau.

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Author:   Jordan Stump
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9780803242685


ISBN 10:   0803242689
Pages:   193
Publication Date:   01 October 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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... this book--the first new monograph on Queneau for some time--is very welcome as a stimulating and well-informed discussion offering close textual readings, making good use of Journaux 1914-1965, Morale elementaire and earlier critical studies, and providing interesting sidelights, as on Queneau's relationship with Lacan. --French Studies, July 2000


""" ... this book--the first new monograph on Queneau for some time--is very welcome as a stimulating and well-informed discussion offering close textual readings, making good use of Journaux 1914-1965, Morale elementaire and earlier critical studies, and providing interesting sidelights, as on Queneau's relationship with Lacan.""--French Studies, July 2000"


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Jordan Stump is an assistant professor of French at the University of Nebraska. He is the translator of four novels by Marie Redonnet and also of Eric Chevillard’s The Crab Nebula and Patrick Modiano’s Out of the Dark (all available from the University of Nebraska Press).

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