| The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert Contributor(s): Prendergast, Christopher (Author), Sheringham, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521369770 ISBN-13: 9780521369770 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $51.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1988 Annotation: This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 840.91 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in French |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.84 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Mis res 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. |