Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel - The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting

Klappentext This book demonstrates instead the writers' use of irony and allegory in struggling against the deceitfulness of their own texts. Zusammenfassung This book demonstrates instead the writers' use of irony and allegory in struggling against the deceitfulness of their own texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Balzac: the power of lying and the irony of power; 2. Descriptive and narrative self-deception: Flaubert's allegory of parody; 3. Forgetting and beyond: Zola and allegory; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: James H. Reid, Reid James H.
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521029780
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02978-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French; Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form