Introduction

The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198850007.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

Adam Guy

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Marguerite Duras ◽

The Political ◽

Nathalie Sarraute ◽

Literary Field ◽

Claude Simon ◽

Michel Butor ◽

Tel Quel ◽

History Of ◽

Nouveau Roman

The Introduction begins by detailing the emergence of the nouveau roman in its own place and time, looking at the political and cultural history of postwar France. The publisher Les Éditions de Minuit—the main sponsor of the nouveau roman—is introduced, and the earliest articulations of the nouveau roman are presented. Then, the works and signature styles of six writers are briefly surveyed, namely Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Robert Pinget, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Claude Simon. The ends of the nouveau roman and the rise of Tel Quel are considered. Then the particular force of the nouveau roman in the British literary field is introduced, with modernism and the end of empire as key determinants. Finally, each of the book’s chapters is summarized.

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La présence et le fonctionnement de l’absence dans le Nouveau Roman

Quêtes littéraires ◽

10.31743/ql.4647 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 59-72

Author(s):

Czesław Grzesiak

Keyword(s):

Samuel Beckett ◽

Political Engagement ◽

Marguerite Duras ◽

Text Generation ◽

Nathalie Sarraute ◽

Time And Space ◽

Claude Simon ◽

Michel Butor ◽

Robert Pinget ◽

Nouveau Roman

The French nouveau roman is characterised by lack of numerous elements typical of the traditional, commonly called Balzacian, novel. This lack involves the rejection of plot, omniscient narrator, psychological, moral and ideological factors, social and political engagement, the decomposition of character, the indeterminacy and gradual implosion of time and space as well as the text generation based on some lack or void. The aim of the article is to present these missing elements of the represented world and to discuss their functions in the works of leading practitioners of the nouveau roman, such as Samuel Beckett (predecessor), Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Robert Pinget, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute and Claude Simon.

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The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism

10.1093/oso/9780198850007.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Adam Guy

Keyword(s):

Focal Point ◽

Marguerite Duras ◽

The Novel ◽

Literary Field ◽

Claude Simon ◽

Michel Butor ◽

Muriel Spark ◽

Nouveau Roman ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The Impact

This book shows the centrality of the nouveau roman to the literary culture of postwar Britain. Emerging in the mid–late 1950s in France, the nouveau roman grouped together a range of writers committed to innovation in the novel, such as Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Robert Pinget, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Claude Simon. Transferred to a different national context, the nouveau roman became a focal point for debates in Britain about realism, modernism, and the end of empire. The nouveau roman and the Novel in Britain After Modernism draws on extensive research into archival and periodical sources in order to tell the story of the nouveau roman’s dissemination and reception in Britain. It also looks at postwar writers working in Britain so as to gauge the impact of the nouveau roman in novels of the 1960s and 1970s. Whether in translations of Nathalie Sarraute’s writing by Maria Jolas (one of the founders of the interwar little magazine transition), or in the conservative critiques of the nouveau roman levelled by the circle around C. P. Snow, the question of the legacies of European high modernism is always in view. But equally, for writers like Brian W. Aldiss, Christine Brooke-Rose, Eva Figes, B. S. Johnson, Alan Sheridan, Muriel Spark, and Denis Williams, the nouveau roman also provided the source of aesthetic innovations that could exceed the modernist account of the new. This book uncovers a neglected history of the postwar British literary field, with continuing relevance for contemporary innovative writing.

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Nouveau Roman

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem1727-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jan Baetens ◽

Christopher Langlois

Keyword(s):

Marguerite Duras ◽

Nathalie Sarraute ◽

Claude Simon ◽

Michel Butor ◽

New Novel ◽

André Breton ◽

The 1950S ◽

Robert Pinget ◽

Nouveau Roman ◽

Critical Movement

The ‘Nouveau Roman’ or ‘New Novel’ is used to refer to a literary and critical movement in France during the 1950s and early 1960s. Later, more experimental developments in the late 1960s and early 1970s will be labeled the ‘New New Novel’. Although the Nouveau Roman quickly became associated with the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, Claude Simon, and Robert Pinget, to name only the most notable, it never crystallized into so dogmatic an ideology of literature and art as had the Surrealism of André Breton during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Cyprus

The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190499341.013.31 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 479-491

Author(s):

Sabine Fourrier

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Iron Age ◽

Fourth Century ◽

The Political ◽

History Of

This chapter concentrates on the Phoenician presence in the island of Cyprus in the Iron Age (from the eleventh until the end of the fourth century bce). After a brief overview, it addresses the question of identification of the Cypriot Qarthadasht and the issue of a supposed Phoenician colonization in Cyprus. The political and cultural history of the Cypro-Phoenician kingdom of Kition also receives particular attention. At the same time, the widespread and multifaceted aspects of Phoenician presences on the island are underlined: Phoenician presence was not confined to Kition and Phoenician influence did not exclusively spread in the island from Kition.

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The Chronology of Yaxuna

Ancient Mesoamerica ◽

10.1017/s0956536100001929 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 167-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Charles Suhler ◽

Traci Ardren ◽

David Johnstone

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Cultural Development ◽

The Political ◽

Ancient Maya ◽

Urban Center ◽

Maya Lowlands ◽

Terminal Classic ◽

History Of ◽

Late Formative ◽

Middle Formative

AbstractResearch at the ancient Maya city of Yaxuna, located in the heart of the Yucatan Peninsula, has provided sufficient data to suggest a preliminary chronological framework for the cultural development of this large polity. Primary ceramic and stratigraphie data are presented to support a five-phase scheme of cultural history, encompassing the Middle Formative through Postclassic periods (500 b.c.–a.d. 1250). In addition to chronological significance, the political ramifications of a pan-lowland ceramic trade are addressed. Yaxuna experienced an early florescence in the Late Formative–Early Classic periods, when it was the largest urban center in the central peninsula. A second renaissance in the Terminal Classic period was the result of Yaxuna's role in an alliance between the Puuc and Coba, in opposition to growing Itza militancy. This paper proposes a chronological framework for the cultural development of one northern Maya region in order to facilitate an understanding of this area as part of the overall history of polity interaction and competition in the Maya lowlands.

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The Political and Cultural History of the Kurds

10.3726/b17492 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Amir Harrak

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

The Political ◽

History Of

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La clé de l’incomprehénsible

Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings ◽

10.24908/iqurcp.9633 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Stevenson

Keyword(s):

Nous Avons ◽

Claude Simon ◽

Michel Butor ◽

De Se ◽

Nouveau Roman

À une époque où les habiletés de communication font partie des compétences de base du XXIe siècle, on se rend compte que l’obsession avec le langage dans les théories littéraires des années 50 et 60 est justifiée. La communication reste le rôle principal du langage, mais le contenu de cette communication a beaucoup changé. Presque chaque romancier appartenant au mouvement du nouveau roman utilise le langage de façon très différente de celle dont nous avons l’habitude en expérimentant avec le langage, en l’étirant de tous les côtés afin de lui donner une nouvelle dimension. Il ne s’agit plus de communiquer des idées et des sentiments, mais plutôt de se pencher sur le langage lui-même, de se réinventer pour que l’écrivain puisse mettre sur papier ce qu’il ressente : des sensations, des perceptions, des soupçons.Nathalie Sarraute, par exemple, perçoit le langage dans le sens mallarméen du terme, c’est-à-dire, « essentiel », complexe et qui produit du sens. En dehors du langage elle affirme l’existence d’une substance non-verbale qu’elle appelle « l’innommé » ou le « non-nommé » et le langage sert justement de médiateur entre les sensations que l’écrivain veut exprimer et son lecteur.Avec Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon et Michel Butor, le langage dans le roman joue un rôle important car il force le lecteur à changer sa façon de lire afin de comprendre le roman. Les jeux de mots et l’insistance sur les descriptions des objets font penser le lecteur qu’il doit absolument trouver la clé afin de comprendre l’incompréhensible.

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CULTURAL INTERACTION BETWEEN SAFAVID IRAN AND OTTOMAN TURKEY IN 16TH CENTURY

Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS ◽

10.31696/2618-7302-2020-4-136-148 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 136-148

Author(s):

I. A. Averianov ◽

Keyword(s):

Ottoman Empire ◽

Cultural History ◽

16Th Century ◽

The Political ◽

Cultural Interaction ◽

Cultural Codes ◽

Religious Worldview ◽

History Of ◽

Sufi Order ◽

Main Support

Сoming to power of the Safavids Sufi dynasty in Iran (in the person of Shah Ismail I) in 1501 caused noticeable transformations in the political, social, cultural and religious life of the Near and Middle East. This dynasty used the semi-nomadic tribes of the Oguz Turks (‘Kyzylbash’) as its main support, which it managed to unite under the auspices of military Sufi order of Safaviyya. However, the culture of the Safavid state was dominated by a high style associated with the classical era of the Persian cultural area (‘Greater Iran’) of the 10th–15th centuries. The Iranian-Turkic synthesis that emerged in previous centuries received a new form with the adoption by the Safavids of Twelver Shiism as an official religious worldview. This put the neighboring Ottoman state in a difficult position, as it had to borrow cultural codes from ‘heretics’. Nevertheless, the Ottomans could not refuse cultural interaction with the Safavids, since they did not have any other cultural landmark in that era. This phenomenon led to a number of collisions in the biographies of certain cultural figures who had to choose between commonwealth with an ‘ideological enemy’ or rivalry, for the sake of which they often had to hide their personal convictions and lead a ‘double life’. The fates of many people, from the crown princes to ordinary nomads, were broken or acquired a tragic turn during the Ottoman-Safavid conflict of ‘spiritual paths’. However, many other poets, painters, Sufis sometimes managed to transform this external opposition into the symbolism of religious and cultural synthesis. In scholarly literature, many works explore certain aspects of the culture of the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid state separately, but there are almost no works considering the synthesis of cultures of these two largest Muslim states. Meanwhile, the author argues, that understanding the interaction and synthesis of the Ottoman and Safavid cultures in the 16th century is a key moment for the cultural history of the Islamic world. The article aims to outline the main points of this cultural synthesis, to trace their dependence on the ideology of the two states and to identify the personality traits of a ‘cultured person’ that contributed to the harmonization of the culture of two ideologically irreconcilable, but culturally complementary empires. A comparative study of this kind is supported by Ottoman sources. In the future, the author will continue this research, including the sources reflecting the perception of the Ottoman cultural heritage by the Safavids.

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BANDITS, ELVIS, AND OTHER MYSTICS: An Interview with Paul Vanderwood

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.1353/tam.2012.0027 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 68 (4) ◽

pp. 563-592

Author(s):

Eric Van Young

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Cultural History ◽

San Diego ◽

Professor Emeritus ◽

The Political ◽

State University ◽

History Of ◽

San Diego State University ◽

Power Of God

Paul Vanderwood, Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University, died in San Diego onOctober 10, 2011, at the age of 82. A distinguished and innovative historian of modern Mexico, Vanderwood authored or co-authored several books, mostly dealing with the political, social, and cultural history of Mexico between about 1860 and the mid-twentieth century. The four works for which he is best known are Disorder and Progress (1982), The Power of God Against the Guns ofGovernment (1998), Juan Soldado (2004), and Satan's Playground (2010), and they are discussed extensively in this interview.

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