The Order of Mimesis

Klappentext This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Zusammenfassung 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Christo Prendergast, Christopher Prendergast
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521369770
• ISBN: 978-0-521-36977-0
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies