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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• Autori: James H. Reid
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Sheringham (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521029780
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02978-0
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in French
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata