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- catalog abstract "In a unique demonstration of the critical possibilities of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola analyzes the intertextual conflicts between four monuments of nineteenth-century fiction: Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Charles Dicken's Bleak House, and Emile Zola's Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal. The book's fundamental hypothesis is that Dickens and Zola exemplify Hugo's conception of the novel - and of literary history - as a "graft" of one work upon another, producing hybrid mixtures of genres and styles of representation. For Hugo, a new work always "kills" its predecessor while at the same time preserving its memory. Thus writing becomes inlaid with writing; the text, a palimpsest. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's book traces the covert manifestations of Hugo's romantic notion of the novel through later French and English realism, arguing that the anachronistic traces of past literary periods are always at work defining the aims of the present, no matter how radical a new departure it seems or tries to be.".
- catalog contributor b7959516.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's book traces the covert manifestations of Hugo's romantic notion of the novel through later French and English realism, arguing that the anachronistic traces of past literary periods are always at work defining the aims of the present, no matter how radical a new departure it seems or tries to be.".
- catalog description "In a unique demonstration of the critical possibilities of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola analyzes the intertextual conflicts between four monuments of nineteenth-century fiction: Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Charles Dicken's Bleak House, and Emile Zola's Le Ventre de Paris and Germinal. The book's fundamental hypothesis is that Dickens and Zola exemplify Hugo's conception of the novel - and of literary history - as a "graft" of one work upon another, producing hybrid mixtures of genres and styles of representation. For Hugo, a new work always "kills" its predecessor while at the same time preserving its memory. Thus writing becomes inlaid with writing; the text, a palimpsest.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: literary dialogues, a meditation on intertextuality -- Bakhtin's dialogue with Hugo -- Notre-Dame de Paris: the hybrid novel -- Formal incongruity in Dickens's Bleak House -- Fiction fair or fiction foul?: Bleak House and Notre-Dame de Paris -- "Ceci tuera cela": the cathedral in the marketplace -- Pregnant death: Germinal and the triumph of the hybrid novel.".
- catalog extent "260 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "To kill a text.".
- catalog identifier "0874135397 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "To kill a text.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "To kill a text.".
- catalog subject "843/.709 20".
- catalog subject "Dialogue.".
- catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Technique.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Technique.".
- catalog subject "French fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Technique.".
- catalog subject "Intertextuality.".
- catalog subject "PQ653 .Z37 1995".
- catalog subject "Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 Technique.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: literary dialogues, a meditation on intertextuality -- Bakhtin's dialogue with Hugo -- Notre-Dame de Paris: the hybrid novel -- Formal incongruity in Dickens's Bleak House -- Fiction fair or fiction foul?: Bleak House and Notre-Dame de Paris -- "Ceci tuera cela": the cathedral in the marketplace -- Pregnant death: Germinal and the triumph of the hybrid novel.".
- catalog title "To kill a text : the dialogic fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola / Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".