The Order of Mimesis

Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert

By:

Christopher Prendergast

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in French

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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 Miseres 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.

Release date Australia

October 28th, 1988

Author

Christopher Prendergast

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

300

Series

Cambridge Studies in French

Dimensions

142x224x28

ISBN-13

9780521369770

Product ID

2896914

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