The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 12)
ISBN-13:
9780521237895
ISBN-10:
0521237890
Author:
Christopher Prendergast
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
296 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780521237895
ISBN-10:
0521237890
Author:
Christopher Prendergast
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Hardcover
296 pages
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The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 12) (ISBN-13: 9780521237895 and ISBN-10: 0521237890), written by authors
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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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