The Order of Mimesis
Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert
Part of Cambridge Studies in French
- Author: Christopher Prendergast
- Date Published: October 1988
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521369770
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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 Misères 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.
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- Date Published: October 1988
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521369770
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 224 x 142 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
General editors preface
Acknowledgements
1. The order of mimesis: poison, nausea, health
2. The economy of mimesis
3. Balzac: narrative contracts
4. Stendhal: the ethics of verisimilitude
5. Nerval: the madness of mimesis
6. Flaubert: the stupidity of mimesis
7. Conclusion: mimesis, a matter for the police?
Notes
Translations
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Index.
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