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OverviewNaming 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jordan StumpPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Weight: 0.425kg ISBN: 9780803242685ISBN 10: 0803242689 Pages: 193 Publication Date: 01 October 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews... 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" Author InformationJordan 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |