Subversions of Verisimilitude : Reading Narrative from Balzac to Sartre / Lawrence R. Schehr.
Schehr, Lawrence R., author.
2022
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Title Subversions of Verisimilitude : Reading Narrative from Balzac to Sartre / Lawrence R. Schehr.
Author Schehr, Lawrence R., author.
ISBN 9780823292684
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292684
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (272 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823292684 doi
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.
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Frontmatter
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

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