Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies The border between fact and fiction has been trespassed so often it seems to be a highway. Works of history that include fictional techniques are usually held in contempt, but works of ficti[...]
Milloin teos on fiktiota ja milloin ei? Mitkä piirteet ovat ominaisia fiktiiviselle teokselle? Fiktion ja ei-fiktion rajankäynti on viime aikoina ollut yksi eniten keskustelua herättäneistä kysymyksistä kirjallisuuden-, historian- ja kulttuurintutkimuksen alueilla.Fiktion mieli tutkii, mikä t[...]
In "Why Fiction?", one of the most important works of narrative theory to come out of France in recent years, Jean-Marie Schaeffer understands fiction not as a literary genre but - in contrast to all other literary theorists - as a genre of life. The result is arguably the first systematic refutatio[...]
The French Writers' War, 1940-1953, is a remarkably thorough account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occupation through France's passage of amnesty laws in the early 1950s. To understand how the Occupation affected French literary production as a whole, G[...]