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Cambridge University Press The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert: 12 (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 12)

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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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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0521369770
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism
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Release Date: 01 June 2009
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