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 '[…] quant au jeune couple, non, pas d’allusions littéraires, simplement Pierre et, voyons, Cécile est exclu, mais Agnès conviendrait très bien, Sant’Agnese in Agone, l’église de Borromini sur la piazza Navona.'

La Modification

 

  • Manoury, D., 'Aperçus du traitement littéeraire du rêve: Queneau, Perec, Butor, Blanchot', Sites, vol. 6, no. 2, 2002, 347-56
  • Marin, Louis, ‘Textes en représentation’, Critique, vol. 26, 1970, 909-34
  • Martens, Lorna, ‘Empty Center and Open End: the Theme of Language in Michel Butor’s L’Emploi du temps’, PMLA, vol. 96, no. 1, 1981, 49-63
  • Mary, Georges, ‘Des figures aux structures, un passage mal frayé: La Modification, Sylvie’, Poétique, vol. 12, 1982, 259-277
  • Mason, Barbara, 'An Interpretation through Pattern and Analogy of Michel Butor's Description de San Marco', Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 14, 1978, 72-78
  • Mason, Barbara, Michel Butor: A Checklist, London, Grant & Cutler, 1979
  • Mason, Barbara, ‘ "Poème optique": An Illustration by Michel Butor’, Mosaic, vol. 17, no. 3, 1984, 103-115
  • Mason, Barbara, ‘Expanding Fictions: Butor’s Intervalle’, Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. 5, no. 3, 1985, 126-32
  • Mason, Barbara, ‘Doubling Forms, Tensions and Shifts: A Reading of Michel Butor’s Où’, Essays in Poetics, vol. 11, no. 2, 18-28
  • Mason, Barbara, ‘Illustration in Michel Butor’s Illustrations’, Romanic Review, vol. 77, no. 2, 1986, 141-154
  • Mason, Barbara, ‘Où: The Title as Sesame, or Releasing Butor’s ‘Genie’’, French Forum, vol. 11, no. 1, 1986, 71-82
  • Mason, Barbara, ‘Criticism and Invention in Butor’s Repertoire Series’, New Zealand Journal of French Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 1986, 23-43
  • Mason, Barbara, ‘Whiteness and Writing in Michel Butor’s Works: The Example of Christian Dotremont and Beyond’, Dalhousie French Studies, no. 12, 1987, 37-53
  • Mason, Barbara, ‘"Opusculum Baudelairianum": Michel Butor, Jiri Kolar: Collage and Contestation', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 1988, 207-220
  • Mason, Barbara, ‘Language and Ideology in Michel Butor’s Improvisations sur Flaubert’, Nottingham French Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 1989, 53-64
  • Matthews, J. H., ‘Michel Butor: l’alchimie et le roman’, La Revue des lettres modernes, nos. 94-95, 1964, 51-66
  • McWilliams, Dean, The Narratives of Michel Butor: the Writer as Janus, Athens, Ohio, Ohio Univ Press, 1978
  • McWilliams, D., ‘The Novelist as archeologist: Butor’s L’Emploi du temps’, L’Esprit créateur, vol. 15, 1965, 367-76
  • McWilliams, Dean, ‘William Faulkner and Michel Butor’s Novel of Awareness’, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, vol. 19, 1972, 387-402
  • Meakin, David and E. Dand, 'Alchemy and Optimism in Butor's L'Emploi du temps', Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 15, 1979, 264-78
  • Mercier, Vivian, 'Michel Butor: The Schema and the Myth', Mundus Artium, vol.1, no. 3, 1968, 16-27
  • Miguet-Ollagnier, Marie, ‘Activité et représentations du feu dans Où de Michel Butor’, La Revue des Lettres Modernes, vols. 1133-1141, 1993, 45-65
  • Miller, Elinor S., 'Approaches to the Cataract: Butor's Niagara', Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 2, 1977, 33-54
  • Miller, Elinor S., ‘Death, Transmutation and the Artist’, Romance Notes, vol. 24, no. 1, 1983, 82-89
  • Miller, Elinor S., ‘Critical Commentary, II: Butor’s Quadruple fond as Serial Music’, Romance Notes, vol. 24, no. 2, 1983, 196-204
  • Miller, Elinor S., ‘Butor’s Beautiful Decay’, Romance Notes, vol. 29, no. 1, 1988, 61-69
  • Miller, Elinor S., 'Michel Butor's Guirlande liminaire: An Introductory Study', Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, vol. 38, 1989, 73-78
  • Miller, Elinor S., 'Butor's Collaborations with "Trois Suisses", New Novel Review: Nueva Novela/Nouveau Roman Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 1996, 67-83
  • Miller, Elinor S., Prisms and Rainbows: Michel Butor's Collaborations with Jacques Monory, Jirí Kolár, and Pierre Alechinsky, Madison and London, Fairleigh cickinson UP and associated UP, 2003
  • Minogue, Valerie, ‘Distortion and Creativity in the Subjective Viewpoint’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 12, no. l, 1976, 37-49
  • Minssieux-Chamonard, Marie, Michel Butor, Paris, Adpf, 2006

  • Minssieux-Chamonard, Marie, Inventaire des livres d’artistes imprimés de Michel Butor : 1962-1990, Paris, Éditions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2020

  • Montel, Jean-Claude, ‘Mobile: America, the Novel’, Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. 5, no. 3, 1985, 108-111
  • Montupet, Pascale, 'Célébration du Mont Fuji par Hokusai, Edmond de Goncourt, Michel Butor', in Muriel Detrie (ed.), Littérature et Extrême-Orient: Le Paysage extrême-oriental. Le Taoisme dans la littrature européenne, Paris, Champion, 117-33
  • Morcos, Gamila, ‘La Descente aux Enfers dans La Modification de Butor et l’Eneide de Virgile’, Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 16, 1989, 84-98
  • Morcos, Gamila, ‘Mobile de Butor: Typographie et justification’, Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1981, 56-76
  • Morrissette, Bruce, ‘Narrative "You" in Contemporary Literature’, Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 2, 1965, 1-25
  • Mortimer, Armine Kotin, 'Narrative Finality', Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 5, no. 2, 1981, 175-95
  • Moussa, Sarga, ‘L'Egypte de Michel Butor au miroir de l''ethnographie' nervalienne’, in Catherine Mayaux (ed.) Ecrivains et intellectuels français face au monde arabe, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2011, 107-116
  • Mrozowicki, Michal, ‘Degrés ou les dégradations de la structure mensongère’, Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny, vol. 32, no. 4, 1985, 441-461
  • Mrozowicki, Michał, ‘L’Absence chez Michel Butor: L’Emploi du temps et Degrés’, Quêtes Littéraires, vol. 2, 2012, 66-80
  • O’Donnell, Thomas, ‘Polemic’, Diacritics, vol. 2, no. 2, 1972, 52-56
  • O'Donnell, Thomas D., 'Michel Butor's Passing Time and the Detective Hero', Mystery and Detection Annual, 1973, 211-20
  • O’Donnell, Thomas D., ‘Michel Butor and the Tradition of Alchemy’, International Fiction Review, vol. 2, 1975, 150-53
  • O'Donnell, Thomas D., 'L'Emploi du temps: Talisman, Spell, and Schizophrenia', in Luanne Frank (ed.), Literature and the Occult: Essays in Comparative Literature, Arlington, University of Texas at Arlington, 1977
  • Ogawa, Midori, Voix, musique, altérité : Duras, Quignard, Butor : l'invention des ombres, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2010
  • O'Neill, Kathleen, 'On Passing Time', Mosaic, vol. 8, no. 1, 1974, 29-37
  • Oppenheim, Lois, ‘Animation of the Work of Art: Michel Butor’s L’Embarquement de la Reine de Saba’, MLN, vol. 109, no. 4, 1994, 741-52
  • Oppenheim, Lois, ‘Michel Butor’s L’Embarquement de la Reine de Saba: An Allegorical Undoing of Aesthetic Experience’, in Marlies Kronegger (ed.), Allegory Old and New in Literature, the Fine Arts, Music and Theatre and Its Continuity in Culture, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academy under the Auspices of World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, 1994, 131-39
  • Oppenheim, Lois, Intentionality and intersubjectivity, a phenomenological study of Butor’s La Modification, Lexington, French Forum, 1980
  • Ørum, Tania, ‘Romanen som sproglig aktivisme: Om Michel Butors Seks millioner otte hundrede ti tusind liter vand i sekundet’, K&K: Kultur og Klasse. Kritik og Kulturanalyse, vol. 31, no. 1, 2003, 64-81
  • Passias, Katherine, 'Deep and Surface Structure of the Narrative Pronoun " vous" in Butor's La Modification and Its Relationship to Free Indirect Style, Language and Style, no. 9, 1976, 197-212
  • Patai, Daphne, ‘Temporal Structure as a Fictional Category in Michel Butor’s "La Modification"’, French Review, vol. 46, 1973, 1117-28
  • Paterson, Janet M., ‘Le Vitrail de Caïn: l’engendrement textuel dans L’Emploi du temps de Michel Butor’, Romanic Review, vol. 70, 1979, 375-83
  • Pellegrino Ceccarelli, Alba, '"A vous de jouer, chere assistance!"', Sémiologie du texte dramatique et sociologie du public', Degrés, no. 31, 1982, h1-h4
  • Pellegrino-Ceccarelli, Alba, ‘Michel Butor et ses peintres’, Degrés, no. 34, 1983, f1-f18
  • Pirvu, Maria Christina, Michel Butor, le retour en avant, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2011
  • Poirier, Jacques, ‘Le Savoir animal du nouveau roman: Claude Simon et Michel Butor’, in Alain Romestaing and Alain Schaffner (eds), Histoires naturelles des animaux XXe-XXIe siècles, Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2016, 221-30 
  • Pousseur, Henri, 'La Foire de Votre Faust', Marche Romane, vol. 20, no. 3, 1971, 21-37
  • Pringle, Mary Beth, ‘Fictions in Fiction: Henriette and Cécile in Michel Butor’s A Change of Heart’, International Fiction Review, vol. 16, no.1, 1989, 26-31
  • Pringle, ‘Butor’s Room without a View: the Train Compartment in La Modification’, Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. 5, no. 3, 1985, 112-18
  • Pugh, Anthony R., ‘Butor on Beethoven, or The Limits of Formalism’, International Fiction Review, vol. 3, 1976, 65-69
  • Pupitti, L., ‘Le Démonstratif, signe de la prise de conscience dans La Modification de Michel Butor’, Neuphilologische Mittelungen, vol. 67, 1966, 144-55

For details of the contents of edited collections devoted to Michel Butor, see the website of Henri Desoubeaux, Dictionnaire Butor.

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