Hindsight and Insight: Focalization in Four Eighteenth-Century French Novels

by William F. Edmiston

William F. Edmiston revises current theories of what narratologists call "focalization" and applies his revised theory to four eighteenth-century French memoir-novels.

Hindsight and Insight contributes to our knowledge of the history and evolution of the novel by demonstrating that France's earliest novelists were already engaged in the kinds of narrative experimentation that are usually associated with modern writers. It presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271028092
• ISBN13: 9780271028095
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"