Subversions of verisimilitude : reading narrative from Balzac to Sartre / Lawrence R. Schehr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schehr, Lawrence R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

French fiction.

French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Realism in literature.

Probability in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.

Summary:

This title focuses on the way a number of French literary narratives written in the realist tradition show a dynamic balance between the desire of the author/narrator to present a verisimilar world and the need for aesthetic balance. While the works studied range from 1835 to 1938, they share a perspective on the relations between and the need to engage questions of realist verisimilitude and narrative interest and aesthetics.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Balzac: Enallages and Twists

2. Flaubert and Zola: Challenges to Verisimilitude

3. Colette and Proust: Queering Modernism

4. Sartre's Bodies

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8232-4849-6

0-8232-4109-2

OCLC:

923763911