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The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert

The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert

Prendergast, Christopher
Sheringham, Michael

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Series: Cambridge Studies in French, Book 12

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521369770
ISBN13: 9780521369770
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 28 1988
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to the concept of mimesis and relates these to a number of narrative texts produced in the period which literary history familiarly designates as the age of realism: Balzac's Illusions Perdues and Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, Nerval's Sylvie and Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale. The book is not merely expository however: one of the author's aims is to engage with much of the polemical debate which has surrounded the topic, in the belief that a recognition of the historical conditions determining both the theory and practice of mimesis must be recovered.

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