Reading Realism in Stendhal

Klappentext This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process? Zusammenfassung This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process? Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Mimesis and the reader: some historical considerations; 2. Part II. De l'amour: 2. Love and the wayward text; Part III. Le Rouge et le Noir: 3. Unexpressing the expressible; 4. The speaking of the quoted word: authors, ironies and epigraphs; 5. The uses of reading; Part IV. Vie de Henry Brulard; 6. The reader and the life; Part V. La Chartruese de Parme: 7. The representation of politics and the politics of representation; 8. A hero without qualities; 9. Forgery, plagerism and the operatic text; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Jefferson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521066969
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06696-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies