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Mimologics
Gerard Genette
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Description for Mimologics
Paperback. Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard 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. Translator(s): Morgan, Thais E. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 446 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 753.
Do words—their sounds and shapes, their lengths and patterns—imitate the world? Mimology says they do. First argued in Plato’s Cratylus more than two thousand years ago, mimology has left an important mark in virtually every major art and artistic theory thereafter. 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 Gérard Genette. Genette treats matters as basic and staid as the alphabet and as reverberating as the letter R in ur-linguistics. ... Read more
Do words—their sounds and shapes, their lengths and patterns—imitate the world? Mimology says they do. First argued in Plato’s Cratylus more than two thousand years ago, mimology has left an important mark in virtually every major art and artistic theory thereafter. 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 Gérard Genette. Genette treats matters as basic and staid as the alphabet and as reverberating as the letter R in ur-linguistics. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
Series
Stages
Number of Pages
446
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803270442
SKU
V9780803270442
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About Gerard Genette
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.
Reviews for Mimologics
"Monumental... In [Mimologics], the influential structuralist/narratologist Genette traces a tradition of philosophical and linguistic arguments for the intrinsic connections between words and things... Morgan expertly renders into English the multitudinous examples of onomatopoeia, puns, double meanings, and other plays on the sounds and meanings of words. Morgan's theoretical introduction usefully locates the book's 18 chapters in the tradition of mimologics, ... Read more