Phantom Sentences

Contents: Mieke Bal: Phantom Sentences - Sylvie Patron: On the Epistemology of Narrative Theory: Narratology and Other Theories of Fictional Narrative - Gilles Philippe: When and Why Do We Speak of a Discourse without an Addressee - Julien Piat: « Dire je » : Opacity of a First Person Narrative and Strategies of Reading in Beckett's French Trilogy - Robert S. Kawashima: What Is Narrative Perspective? A Non-historicist Answer - Daniel Heller-Roazen: Perception Everywhere - Anne-Lise François: Unspeakable Weather, or the Rain Romantic Constatives Know - Jacqueline Guéron: Remarks on the Grammar of Unspeakable Sentences - Joseph Emonds: Q: the One and Only Functional Head - Henri-José Deulofeu: Peripheral Constituents as Generalized «Hanging» Topics - François Rivenc: Chomsky and the Philosophy of Language - S.-Y. Kuroda: What Is «Iambic Pentameter»? - Kristin Hanson: Some Phonology of the Novel - Thelma Sowley: Crossing Boundaries - Garrett Caples: The Vitality of Roger Fry - Carlos Reyes: Greekjew Is Jewgreek: Ulysses's Irish Odyssey - Ernst Van Alphen: Describing the World Seen Without the Self: Modernism, the Impersonal and the Traumatic - Ann Smock: Instamatic - Lazare Bitoun: The Unspeakable Table (le Garlic) - Ann Banfield: Preface to Phrases sans parole.

The Editors: Robert S. Kawashima is assistant professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies.
Gilles Philippe is professor of French Literature and French Linguistics at Stendhal University in Grenoble.
Thelma Sowley is retired from the English Department of the University of Paris VIII, where she taught linguistics and poetics.