The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert

by Christopher Prendergast

Book Overview

This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to the concept of mimesis and relates these to a number of narrative texts produced in the period which literary history familiarly designates as the age of realism: Balzac's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521369770
• ISBN13: 9780521369770
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"