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- Subversions of Verisimilitude: Reading Narrative from Balzac to Sartre
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
Subversions of Verisimilitude focuses on the ways in which 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-narratives by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Colette, Proust, and Sartre-range over the course of a century, 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. The book discusses some of the subversive paths taken in realism and, specifically, in canonical narratives solidly anchored in the tradition. The goal here is to analyze these realist texts, regardless of the narrative mode chosen, in order to see the deviations and detours from realism, mostly for aesthetic ends.The book contributes to our understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative and furthers our knowledge of the ways in which critical theory illuminates such canonical works.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- 1. Balzac: Enallages and Twists
- pp. 11-57
- 3. Colette and Proust: Queering Modernism
- pp. 124-168
- 4. Sartre’s Bodies
- pp. 169-197
- Bibliography
- pp. 231-236
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823248490
Related ISBN(s)
9780823231355
MARC Record
OCLC
801848603
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-26
Language
English
Open Access
No