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Les études ici réunies visent toutes un même objectif : saisir le sens des textes littéraires dans le détail des formes langagières. L'approche descriptive, informée par les concepts de la linguistique énonciative et textuelle, rejoint ainsi, pour chaque fait de discours envisagé, des préoccupations herméneutiques. Mais la complémentarité naturelle, dans laquelle sont pensés la forme et le sens, apparaît toujours liée à des conditions spécifiques de mise en discours. La composition du récit est examinée dans le cadre particulier de la relation onirique; la désignation, qui instaure une référence, se trouve saisie au moment stratégique de l'ouverture romanesque (incipit) ; le dispositif énonciatif est appréhendé dans le poème lyrique, etc. Les chapitres de cet ouvrage présentent, avec précision et méthode, les moyens de dégager le sens du style. Ils apparaissent ainsi exemplaires d'une mise en relation raisonnée des sciences du langage et des études littéraires.

French literature --- Style, Literary --- Dreams in literature --- Reference (Philosophy) in literature --- History and criticism --- French literature - History and criticism

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Here David Ellison explores the problems encountered by France's best experimental authors writing between 1956 and 1984, when faced with the question: "What should my writing be about?" These years are characterized by the rise of the "new novelists," who questioned the representational function of writing as they created works of imagination that turned in upon themselves and away from exterior reality. It became fashionable at one point to affirm that literature was no longer about the world but uniquely about the words on a page, the signifying surface of the text. Ellison tests this assumption, showing that even in the most seemingly self-referential fictions the words point to the world from which they can never completely separate themselves. Through close readings Ellison examines the novels and theoretical writings of authors whose works are fundamental to our perception of contemporary French writing and thought: Camus, Robbe-Grillet, Simon, Duras, Sarraute, Blanchot, and Beckett. The result is a new understanding of the link between the referential function of literary language and the problematic of the ethics of fiction.

Mimesis (in literature) --- Reference (Philosophy) in literature. --- Experimental fiction, French --- French fiction --- French literature --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Mimesis in literature.