Christopher Prendergast: The Order of Mimesis

Cover: 9780521369770 | The Order of Mimesis | Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert | Buch

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Beschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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; Select bibliography; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780521369770
ISBN-10:	0521369770
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Prendergast, Christopher
Redaktion:	Sheringham, Michael
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Christopher Prendergast
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.01.2009
Gewicht:	0,426 kg