The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert
Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert
Author: Christopher Prendergast Series: Cambridge Studies in French
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.
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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.
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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.
About the Author
Christopher Prendergast is Professor of Modern French Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King 's College Cambridge. He is the co-editor of World Reader, an anthology of world literature.
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