B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart
This paper proposes to examine the apparent contradiction in B.S. Johnson’s novels between, on the one hand, the defamiliarisation of devices so as to lay bare all fictional effects and underline the distance between the referent and its graphic inscription, and on the other hand, the implementation...
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| author | Vanessa Guignery |
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| description | This paper proposes to examine the apparent contradiction in B.S. Johnson’s novels between, on the one hand, the defamiliarisation of devices so as to lay bare all fictional effects and underline the distance between the referent and its graphic inscription, and on the other hand, the implementation of innovative formal strategies meant to reflect reality as faithfully as possible. This double movement (revealing the distance, reducing the distance) will be analysed in relation to Johnson’s theory based on a poetics of truth which rejects the lies of the novelistic form and places the autobiographical subject at the heart of the work. In the process, we will determine which forms of mimesis and of relationship to the real Johnson manages to establish. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8e341b2473044ad196b23dd7e045c27d2022-12-21T19:49:32ZengCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"Sillages Critiques1272-38191969-63022011-12-0112B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écartVanessa GuigneryThis paper proposes to examine the apparent contradiction in B.S. Johnson’s novels between, on the one hand, the defamiliarisation of devices so as to lay bare all fictional effects and underline the distance between the referent and its graphic inscription, and on the other hand, the implementation of innovative formal strategies meant to reflect reality as faithfully as possible. This double movement (revealing the distance, reducing the distance) will be analysed in relation to Johnson’s theory based on a poetics of truth which rejects the lies of the novelistic form and places the autobiographical subject at the heart of the work. In the process, we will determine which forms of mimesis and of relationship to the real Johnson manages to establish.http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2237B.S. Johnsontruth and fictionautobiographymetafictiongraphic devicesdefamiliarisation |
| spellingShingle | Vanessa Guignery B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart Sillages Critiques B.S. Johnson truth and fiction autobiography metafiction graphic devices defamiliarisation |
| title | B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart |
| title_full | B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart |
| title_fullStr | B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart |
| title_full_unstemmed | B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart |
| title_short | B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart |
| title_sort | b s johnson ou l equilibre de l ecart |
| topic | B.S. Johnson truth and fiction autobiography metafiction graphic devices defamiliarisation |
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