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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: James H. Reid, Reid James H.
• Collaboration: Michael Sheringham (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521029780
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02978-0
• Pages: 240
• Thèmes: Cambridge Studies in French; Cambridge Studies in French
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; 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