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nouveau roman
nouveau roman (‘new novel’), a term applied to the work of a wide range of modern French novelists, including Nathalie Sarraute (1902– ), Claude Simon (1913– ), Marguerite Duras (1914– ), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922– ), and Michel Butor (1926– ). These writers reacted against the illusion of order in the traditional novel, and experimented with techniques that were intended to dispel the collective significance of events and to question the omniscience of narrator and author.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "nouveau roman." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "nouveau roman." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-nouveauroman.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "nouveau roman." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-nouveauroman.html |
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nouveau roman
nouveau roman (Fr. ‘new novel’) Experimental fictional form. Pioneered by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Samuel Beckett, and Nathalie Sarraute during the 1950s, it drew on the writings of Franz Kafka and James Joyce, and the techniques of film-making. It is characterized by meticulously detailed description, the avoidance of value judgments, and a consciousness of the artificiality of time sequences.
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"nouveau roman." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "nouveau roman." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-nouveauroman.html "nouveau roman." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-nouveauroman.html |
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nouveau roman
nouveau roman or new novel: see French literature ; Robbe-Grillet, Alain . |
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"nouveau roman." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "nouveau roman." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-nouvroman.html "nouveau roman." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-nouvroman.html |
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