Samuel Beckett, Claude Simon and the mise en abyme of paradoxical duplication

Macris, A

Samuel Beckett, Claude Simon and the mise en abyme of paradoxical duplication

Macris, A

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Citation:: 2004, 14 pp. 117 - 129
Issue Date:: 2004-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Macris, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2110-2351	en_US
dc.date.issued	2004-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2004, 14 pp. 117 - 129	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/8149
dc.description.abstract	In his seminal study of novelistic mise en abyme structures, The Mirror in the Text, Lucien Dällenbach identifies a type he calls the mise en abyme of paradoxical duplication. Characterised by an extreme self-reflexivity, Dällenbach explores the operations of this literary trope in the later novels of the nouveau roman, particularly those of Claude Simon and Samuel Beckett. This article explores how Simon and Beckett employ this device with radically different results, Simon's forming part of a textual poetics that engages with the material and social, while Beckett's tends to a privileging of the self-reflexivity of language.	en_US
dc.title	Samuel Beckett, Claude Simon and the mise en abyme of paradoxical duplication	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.citation.volume	14	en_US
utslib.for	190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)	en_US
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing	en_US
utslib.for	2005 Literary Studies	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of Communication
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	14	en_US

Abstract:

In his seminal study of novelistic mise en abyme structures, The Mirror in the Text, Lucien Dällenbach identifies a type he calls the mise en abyme of paradoxical duplication. Characterised by an extreme self-reflexivity, Dällenbach explores the operations of this literary trope in the later novels of the nouveau roman, particularly those of Claude Simon and Samuel Beckett. This article explores how Simon and Beckett employ this device with radically different results, Simon's forming part of a textual poetics that engages with the material and social, while Beckett's tends to a privileging of the self-reflexivity of language.

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