Naturalist Fiction
The Entropic Vision
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- Author: David Baguley
- Date Published: May 1990
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521373807
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This is the first major study of naturalist fiction as a distinct literary genre. It focuses mainly on French naturalist literature, analysing a number of key works in detail, but also draws examples from other national traditions, particularly from the English novel. Professor Baguley questions and revises many traditional assumptions on important theoretical issues such as the nature of literary history, the concepts of 'realism' and 'naturalism', and the relations between science and literature. He demonstrates the prevalence of certain recurrent generic patterns, themes and techniques in the general body of naturalist literature, ranging from disquieting tragic developments to the most outrageous ironic and parodic effects. He argues persuasively that, far from being a mere record of the external aspects of reality, naturalist fiction is a literature of 'scandalous' provocation which employs the strategies of realist art to convey a profoundly disturbing vision of that reality.
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- Date Published: May 1990
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521373807
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.482kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Histories
2. Theories: realism, naturalism, genre
3. The founding texts
4. The tragic model
5. Comic strains
6. In the ironic modes: naturalist satire and parody
7. The 'scandal' of naturalism
8. Naturalist description
9. The entropic vision
10. By way of conclusion: two English examples
Notes
Translations
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Index.
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