About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780521369770ISBN:0521369770
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, and New York
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780521237895ISBN:0521237890
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