The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert
Christopher Prendergast
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.
ปี:
2009
ฉบับพิมพ์ครั้งที่:
New Ed
สำนักพิมพ์:
Cambridge University Press
ภาษา:
english
จำนวนหน้า:
300
ISBN 10:
0521369770
ISBN 13:
9780521369770
ไฟล์:
PDF, 12.13 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2009