The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Balzac, Beckett, and Cortázar

An investigation of the novel, with particular reference to the works of Balzac, Beckett and Cortazar. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Once Upon a Time, the Novel Had a Structure....Pages 1-11 Prolepsis....Pages 13-28 Scott, Balzac and the Business of Literature....Pages 29-60 Beckett’s Metarrhetoric....Pages 61-86 Cortázar’s Cacaphonic Cacoethes....Pages 87-106 Coda, or the Last Few Bars....Pages 107-113 Back Matter....Pages 115-128